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

Finding aids:

http://archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/html/BRO000.HTM

http://archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/xml/bro.xml

[0409d] Broyles Commission Investigation, date unknown; 1945-1955, Accession No. 2013

Location: Roosevelt University Archives, 430 S. Michigan, Chicago IL 60605

Description: In 1947 State Senator Paul Broyles (R., Mount Vernon) called for a commission to investigate Communism in Illinois. The state legislature created the Seditious Activities Investigation Commission (Broyles Commission), and in 1949 it requested a series of measures to rid Illinois of Communists, including requiring "non-Communist oaths" from public employees, making the support of Communism a felony, and prohibiting Communists from holding office. J.B. Matthews, a special consultant to the Broyles Commission, went on to be the staff director for Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations. The inquiries lasted into well into the 1950s, with Broyles mainly targeting the University of Chicago and Roosevelt College. Files on Benjamin Gitlow; Hearing of the Seditious Activities Commission, April 1949; J.B. Matthews; and Subversive Groups, Attorney General's List, December 1947.

References:

"Projects: Cold War Guide: The Broyles' Bills," http://archives.library.illinois.edu/slcold/researchguides/­col

dwar/freespeech/broyles.php; "The Red Scare at Roosevelt," RU Archives, November 04, 2013, http://rulibra

ry.typepad.com/archives/2013/11/the-red-scare-at-roosevelt.html.

Finding aid:

https://roosevelt.cuadra.com/star/findingaids/BroylesCommissionInvestigation.xml

[0410] Donald C. Bruce collection, 1950-1969, L606

Location: Rare Books and Manuscripts, Indiana State Library, 140 North Senate Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204

Description: Donald Cogley Bruce (1921-1969) was a two-term United States Congressman as a Republican representing the 11th district of Indianapolis. After the 1964 presidential elections, Bruce was appointed National Chairman of the American Conservative Union. He resigned in 1965 to accept the chairmanship of Newscope, Inc. While in Congress, Bruce served on the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which was devoted to gaining first-hand information on the strategy and tactics of Communist and other militant groups. This information was later used in the production of Newscope's first major film, "While Brave Men Die..." This collection includes correspondence, notes, scrapbooks, and photographs, reel-to-reel audio, and 16mm film from Donald C. Bruce in Washington, D.C., ranging from 1950 to 1969 regarding his time in Congress. Series 1: Correspondence, 1961-1964. Subseries 1.1: Subject files, 1961-1970, contains files on Goldwater; Congo documents; Tshombe general documents; World Communist Movement documents; and William D. Pawley documents. Subseries 1.4: Congressional papers, 1961-1964, contains files on Conservatives Club 87th and 88th Congress letters, 1961-1964; HUAC papers; and The Bruce Letters newsletter, 1960-1964. Series 4: Newspaper clippings and scrapbooks, 1958-1964, contains files on Kennedy assassination articles; American Constitutional Action scrapbook; and Lee Harvey Oswald scrapbook, 1963-1964. Series 5: Reel-to-reel audio tapes, circa 1950-1969, contains tapes of Remarks... Relative to John Birch Society and Anti-Communism, circa 1950-1969; Federal minimum wage increase, statement of Donald Bruce interviewed by George O. Fowler, circa 1950-1969; Human Events Fourth Political Action Conference, circa 1950-1969; Right to Work speech, circa 1950-1969; Right to work: Its Foundations, circa 1950-1969; At Random; Speech of Donald Bruce before the Conservatives Club, circa 1950-1969; Communist Indoctrination: Its Significance to Americans by Major William E. Mayer, circa 1950-1969; and Sixth Human Events Political Action Conference: Representative Don Bruce, circa 1950-1969.

Finding aid:

http://www.in.gov/library/files/L606_Bruce_Donald_C_Collection.pdf

[0410a] John B. Bruner Papers, 1848-1876

Location: Special Collections, The Filson Historical Society, 1310 South 3rd Street, Louisville, KY 40208

Description: John B. Bruner (1825-1878) was a lawyer of Hardinsburg, Ky., and member of the Kentucky legislature, 1849-1850, 1857-1861 and 1865-1869. Papers contain letters about his activities as a member of the Whig and American parties in state and national elections.

Finding aid:

http://www.filsonhistorical.org/archive/guide2.html

[0410b] Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers, 1842-1967 (bulk 1869-1929), SpecCol Brush [digital collection]

Location: Special Collections Research Center, Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University, 11055 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-7151

Description: Charles F. Brush, Sr. (1849-1929) was a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, inventor, scientist, entrepreneur and philanthropist most noted for his invention of the arc light system. In 1928, Brush established the Brush Foundation to fund research in the field of eugenics and to study the problems of human overpopulation. Series 1: Correspondence. Subseries 1: Family and Personal, contains correspondence with Juliet Barrett Rublee. Subseries 3: Business and Professional, 1876-1929, contains correspondence with Henry Ford and Robert A. Millikan.

Websites with information:

http://library.case.edu/ksl/collections/special/findingaids.html

Finding aids:

http://library.case.edu/ksl/collections/special/manuscripts/brush/

http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OClW0001.xml

Charles F. Brush, Sr. Papers: Online Exhibit:

http://library.case.edu/ksl/collections/special/brush/archive/index.html

[0410c] Dorothy Hamilton Brush Papers, 1840-1969 (bulk 1936-1968), MS 23

Location: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063

Description: Dorothy Hamilton Brush (1894-1968) was a birth control advocate, women's rights advocate, and author. The bulk of the papers focus on Brush's work with Margaret Sanger and the International Planned Parenthood Federation. The collection includes first-hand accounts of Margaret Sanger's work, as well as reports, correspondence, and photographs on the birth control missionary work of Sanger and Brush in various countries. Correspondents include C.P. Blacker, Barbara and George Cadbury, Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, and Margaret Sanger.

Finding aids:

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss187.html

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss187_main.html

http://infomotions.com/sandbox/liam/pages/mnsss187.html

[0410d] Brush Foundation Records, 1928-1995 (bulk 1965-1990), MS 4736

Location: Western Reserve Historical Society, 10825 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106

Description: The Brush Foundation was created in 1928 by Cleveland inventor Charles F. Brush (1849-1929) to promote "research in the field of eugenics and in the regulation of the increase of population." He and his wife, Dorothy, had been pioneers in Cleveland's early birth control movement. In 1929, the foundation established the Ohio Race Betterment Association. Since the mid-1960s, the foundation has focused on adolescent sexuality and pregnancy (especially sex education), defense of abortion rights, and public policy directed at limiting population growth. The collection consists of board minutes, correspondence, financial statements and income tax returns, newspaper clippings, reprints and photocopied journal articles, and various publications. Series IV: Subject Files, 1938-1992; undated, contains files on Abortion, Contraception, and Pro-Choice Dialogue.

Finding aid:

http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi0277.xml

[0410e] Brush Foundation Records, Series II, 1969-2003, MS 5077

Location: Western Reserve Historical Society, 10825 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106