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

Websites with information:

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/browset.htm

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/browseu_ms.htm

Finding aid:

http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/guides/Bradford.htm

[0362] Kenneth Bradley Collection, 1934-1987 (bulk 1934 to 1972), MS 88-29

Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Wichita State University Libraries, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0068

Description: Case files from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Department of Justice constitute this collection. The files mainly consist of evidentiary findings concerning Rev. Gerald B. Winrod of Wichita and his activities, including his involvement in the Christian Missionary Alliance. In 1942, Winrod was indicted in a Washington, D.C. District Court for conspiracy to violate the U.S. Code regarding seditious activities. An evangelist, author, publisher and political activist, Winrod and his organization, Defenders of the Christian Faith, promoted his advocacy of anti-Semitism, anti-Communism, anti-Catholicism, racial segregation, creationism, and Prohibition. His magazine The Defender was anti-Semitic, anti-administration, and anti-British. Letters and memos from J. Edgar Hoover. Copies of The Defender Magazine; the Missionary Messenger; Western Voice; The Philip Dru Case, by Gerald Winrod (1952), which tries to prove that all the woes in American politics are due to a Jewish-Communist plot and the U.S. presidents are tools used by the Communists; and Counter Attack, a publication of the National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism. Photocopies of California Weckruf (Los Angeles) and The Defender Magazine. Materials relating to Howard Victor Broenstrupp, Ida Mae Cooper, Lawrence Dennis, Elizabeth Eloise Dilling and her publications "The Red Network" and "The Roosevelt Red Record," Ernest Frederick Elmhurst, E.J. Garner, German American Bund, Adolf Hitler, Dr. Emanuel M. Josephson, William Ernest Kullgren, Fritz Kuhn, Joseph E. McWilliams, Protestant War Veterans, The Revealer, Eugene Nelson Sanctuary, Edward James Smythe, Senator Robert A. Taft, U. S. vs. Gerald B. Winrod et. al., United States vs. McWilliams et. al., George Sylvester Viereck, and Volksbund Fuer Dos Deutschtum in Ausland (People's Society for Germanium Abroad, V. D. A.).

Reference:

Seth Bate, "Defending the Defender: Gerald Winrod and the Great Sedition Trial," Fairmount Folio: Journal of History (Wichita State University) 18 (2018): 36-57, http://journals.wichita.edu/index.php/ff/article/viewFile/192/198.

Websites with information:

http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/msub-b.html

http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/mscrcol3.html

http://ksreligion.omeka.net/items/show/74

Finding aids:

http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/pdf/88-29-a.pdf

http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/88-29/88-29-A.HTML

[0363] Thomas Brady, Sr. Collection of Conservative Materials, 1940-1962, Coll 404

Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Knight Library, 2nd floor North, Mail: UO Libraries--SPC, 1299 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1299

Description: Thomas A. Brady (1902-1964) was a professor and administrator at the University of Missouri. The collection contains conservative correspondence, pamphlets, and publications sent to Brady by individuals and conservative groups. Groups include the Theocratic Party, The Cuban Newsletter by the Democratic Revolutionary Front, The Church of God, The Protestant War Veterans of the United States, The Vigilantes, Union Research Institute, and the publication Women's Voice.

Websites with information:

http://library.uoregon.edu/tools/blogs/scua/newly-available-collection-thomas-brady-sr-collection-of-conservative-materials/

Finding aid:

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv93695

[0364] Carl P. Brannin Papers, 1904-1987, AR285

Location: Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library, 702 Planetarium Place, Arlington, Texas 76019-0497

Description: Brannin (1888-1985), a journalist, was active in politics, labor union organizing, and the civil rights movement. He was a charter member of the American Civil Liberties Union and an organizer of the Dallas Civil Liberties Union. Brannin's papers contain correspondence, minutes, financial records, speeches, newspaper clippings, newsletters, constitutions, reports, rosters, press releases, notes, and miscellaneous printed material. Contains files on Harry Elmer Barnes, J. Edgar Hoover, the House Un-American Activities Committee, the John Birch Society, "Operation Abolition" (an anti-Communist film produced by the House Committee on un-American Activities in 1961), and right-wing groups.

Finding aids:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utarl/00118/arl-00118.html

[0364a] Irving Brant Papers, 1910-1977 (bulk 1938-1975), MSS13656

Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Room LM 101, James Madison Memorial Bldg, Washington, D.C. 20540-4680

Description: Irving Brant (1885-1976) was an author, historian, and newspaper editor. Correspondence, memoranda, writings and speeches, research notes, and other papers reflecting Brant's career with various newspapers, in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a playwright, and his interest in James Madison. The series General Correspondence, 1901-1977, contains files on American Mercury, Charles A. Beard, William Edgar Borah, Virginius Dabney, James J. Kilpatrick, National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax, Ezra Pound, Reader's Digest, and Oswald Garrison Villard.

Websites with information:

http://findingaids.loc.gov/browse/collections/b

http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/mssfa.html

Finding aids:

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011060

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011060.3

http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2011/ms011060.pdf

[0365] Boris Brasol Papers, 1919-1954, MSS13672

Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Room LM 101, James Madison Memorial Bldg, Washington, D.C. 20540-4680

Description: Boris Brasol (1885-1963) was a Russian author and critic, criminologist, and lawyer, known for the creation and dissemination of an American edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He was a member of the Russian ultra-conservative monarchist organization Black Hundreds. Correspondence, speeches, drafts and typescripts, notes, memoranda, and other material relating to Russia and the Soviet Union and to Brasol's writings and work as a criminologist and literary critic. Subjects include the 1920s libel suit instituted by Herman Bernstein against Henry Ford for the publication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Reference:

Eugene Pivovarov, "The Papers of Boris Leo Brasol and the Pushkin Society in America in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress," Journal of American Ethnic History 23.1 (Fall 2003): 85-92; Richard Spence, "The Tsar's Other Lieutenant: The Antisemitic Activities of Boris L'vovich Brasol, 1910-1960. Part I: Beilis, the Protocols, and Henry Ford," Journal for the Study of Antisemitism 4.1 (June 2012): 199-220, http://jsantisemitism.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Tsars-Other-Lieutenent.pdf; Richard Spence, "The Tsar's Other Lieutenant: The Antisemitic Activities of Boris L'vovich Brasol, 1910-1960. Part II: White Russians, Nazis, and the Blue Lamoo," Journal for the Study of Antisemitism 4.2 (Dec. 2012): 679-706, http://jsantisemitism.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Tsars-Other-Lieutenant.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://findingaids.loc.gov/browse/collections/b

http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/mssfa.html

Finding aids:

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011021