Archie Henderson - Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right - A Guide to Archives

Description: The collection consists of correspondence (1963-1984); notes, drafts, and proofs of her books Nerves, Mourning the Death of Magic, and The Redneck Way of Knowledge; reports on the Greensboro shootings (November 1979); and materials on the Democratic National Convention of 1980. Short stories, essays, reviews of Boyd's work, and photographs are also included. Her report on the Greensboro shootings is based on a large number of newspaper and magazine clippings, also included in the collection, as well as interviews. Boyd wrote on the Greensboro shootings for the Village Voice and The Redneck Way of Knowledge.

Finding aids:

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/boyd/

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/boyd.pdf

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/boyd/pdf

Finding aid to digital collection:

Materials selected for this project are primarily printed materials related to the November 1979 Greensboro shootings, such as flyers and newsletters from the Workers Viewpoint Organization, the Communist Workers Party, and the Greensboro Justice Fund.

https://library.uncg.edu/dp/crg/collection.aspx?c=66

[0355] George T. Boyd papers, 1903-2001, MSS 3082

Location: L. Tom Perry Special Collections; 20th Century Western & Mormon Manuscripts; 1130 Harold B. Lee Library; Brigham Young University; Provo, Utah 84602

Description: Boyd (1909-2004) was a teacher and life-long student of religion and philosophy. Collection consists largely of research notes and articles on various philosophical topics, especially as they relate to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), its doctrines and practices, leadership (past and present), policies, and theology in general. Files on Ezra Taft Benson, Ezra Taft Benson and the Birch Society, J. Reuben Clark, Communism, Equal Rights Amendment, Extremism, Right wing, and Cleon Skousen.

Websites with information:

https://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/browse.php

Finding aid:

http://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/viewItem/MSS%203082/

[0355a] Papers of Guy and Phyllis Boyd, c1890-2001, MS 7551

Location: National Library of Australia, Parkes Place, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

Description: Guy Martin á Beckett Boyd (1923-1988) was a sculptor. His wife, Phyllis Boyd (1926-2001), was active in a number of conservative organizations, including Women Who Want to be Women, The Australian Family Association, and Women Against the Ordination of Women. Series 11. Women Who Want to be Women, 1980-2000, contains correspondence and papers relating to the activities of WWWW, including reports, submissions, copies of government press releases, ephemera, and correspondence. Series 12. Women Against the Ordination of Women, 1987-1994, contain correspondence, papers written by Phyllis Boyd, Synod papers, reports, agenda and minutes of meetings, submission papers, promotional flyers and brochures, copies of the WAOW newsletter, newspaper cuttings and copies of journal articles. Series 13. Australian Family Association, 1987-2000, contains papers relating to Phyllis Boyd's involvement with the AFA. They include correspondence, minutes of meetings, AFA press releases, copies of the AFA bulletin Family Update, pamphlets and other ephemera. Series 14. Subject files, 1962-2000, contains files on Abortion; Canadian right to life organisations; Christian Pro-Family Forum; Euthanasia; Family Council of Victoria; Homosexuality; Pornography; Pro-Life Victoria; REAL Women of Canada; and Right to life.

Finding aid:

http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/7551.html

[0356] Herbert C. Boyd fonds, 1934-1936, PR1248

Location: Provincial Archives of Alberta, 8555 Roper Rd NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 5W1, Canada

Description: Herbert Cameron Boyd was a dedicated advocate of Major C.H. Douglas' social credit theories and was the official delegate of Kerslake's Douglas Credit League of Canada. He was somewhat critical of William Aberhart's interpretation of Social Credit, believing Social Credit was not entirely feasible provincially, but that Alberta Legislature should study and recommend the system to the federal government. The correspondence files of Herbert C. Boyd concern the Social Credit election victory in Alberta and the controversy between William Aberhart and Major C.H. Douglas, 1932-6. There is correspondence with William Aberhart, C. H. Douglas, Herbert Bruce Brougham, G.B. O'Connor, G.H. Van Allen and others about Social Credit in Alberta, newspaper clippings, research notes, and a copy of "The Case for Douglas Social Credit," the brief prepared by Herbert C. Boyd for C.H. Douglas.

Finding Aids: Inventory is available.

Reference:

"Archives Notes," Canadian Historical Review, Volume 63, Number 4 (1982), p. [591].

Websites with information:

https://hermis.alberta.ca/paa/Details.aspx?ObjectID=PR1248&dv=True&deptID=1

http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/ItemDisplay.asp?sessionKey=1149011692062_206_191_57_196

&l=0&lvl=1&v=0&coll=1&itm=250808&rt=1&bill=1

[0356a] Charles Boyer French Research Foundation Collection, 1939-1950 (bulk 1939-1946), Coll. 1132

Location: Department of Special Collections, Manuscripts Division, Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575

Description: Charles Boyer (1899-1978) and friends founded the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles, California, in the late 1930s to collect information on France and her people and their historical, artistic, and cultural background. The series France Under the German Occupation contains files on Nazi anti-Semitic programs and political executions; and Vichy Government. The series War-time Newspapers, Pamphlets and Tracts contains files on Nazi propaganda. Anti-U.S., England and Russia; Nazi journals; Nazi propaganda. Anti-Semite; Pro-collaboration propaganda; Nazi propaganda. Anti-communist; and Miscellaneous Nazi propaganda.

Websites with information:

http://guides.library.ucla.edu/french

Finding aids:

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/ucla/mss/boye1132.pdf

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt1x0nc4hg/entire_text/

[0357] Sarah Patton Boyle Papers, ca. 1938-1988, Accession 8003-c

Location: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110

Description: The series Correspondence contains correspondence with Hodding Carter; a letter from Wilma Dykeman Stokely, Sept. 19, 1956, commenting on events in Charlottesville concerning Boyle and the "charred cross," and the situation in Clinton, Tennessee, involving Kasper and the court hearings; a letter from Lillian E. Smith, Oct. 3, 1952, on a disagreement concerning segregation with Virginius Dabney, editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch; and an article by George S. Schuyler.

Finding aid:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu01051.xml

[0358] Papers of Sarah Patton Boyle, 1949-1970, Accession # 8003-a,-b

Location: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library, P.O. Box 400113, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4113

Description: Sarah Patton Boyle (1906-1994) was one of Virginia's most prominent white civil rights activists during the 1950s and 1960s and author of the autobiography The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition (1962). The collection contains correspondence and material concerning the books The Desegregated Heart and For Human Beings Only; speeches; editorials; book reviews; and other materials. The series Correspondence contains correspondence with the Richmond Times Dispatch (Virginius Dabney). The series Articles and Review by and About Sarah Patton Boyle contains a letter from J. Edgar Hoover to Boyle. The series Miscellaneous Items contains articles on segregation, the desegregation of schools, racism, miscellaneous anti-integration pamphlets, newspapers, and leaflets, a partially burned wooden cross which was burned on Mrs. Boyle's lawn [1956], printed material and newspaper clippings re anti-integrationist John Kasper, a speech by Harry Flood Byrd, "Relative to the Motion to Take Up the So-Called Civil Rights Bill," 1957 Jul 16, and "Virginia and the Supreme Court Decision of May 17" by Benjamin Muse 1955 Jan 23.