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

Description: This collection, created by Dr. James Aho, contains clippings, pamphlets, books, newsletters from various right-wing extremist groups, newspaper articles, oral interviews, posters, periodicals, taped sermons, videos pertaining to right wing extremist propaganda, ideology, case studies, and correspondence with convicts, including those on death row, who are serving time for hate crimes.. Sample titles are Know Your Enemies, by Gordon "Jack" Mohr, and Essays of a Klansman, by Louis Beam. The collection also contains Aho's personal correspondence and interviews with members of the right-wing movement in north Idaho during the 1980s and '90s such as Aryan Nation members.

References:

Kelsi Linsenmann, "Aho Collection on Right-Wing Extremism Donated to Special Collections," Between the Lines: The Eli M. Oboler Library Newsletter, Idaho State University, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2013, pp. 1, 3, http://libpublic2.eol.isu.edu/documents/btl202spring.pdf; "Introduction to the James Aho Collections," CIMA Newsletter, Volume 40, Issue 4 (Fall/Winter 2013), p. 16, http://cimarchivists.­files.wordpress.com/2014/03/cima_newsletter_nov2013.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://www.isu.edu/library/special/scmc.htm

http://libpublic2.eol.isu.edu/documents/btl202spring.pdf

http://libpublic2.eol.isu.edu/blogs/ln/wordpress/?p=3330

http://libpublic2.eol.isu.edu/blogs/ln/wordpress/?m=201310

[0028] Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals Records, 1952-1970, Coll. 70023

Location: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010

Description: Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, Inc. (ARCI, 1952-1970) was a State Department-funded, non-profit organization which aimed to resettle 25,000 Chinese intellectual refugees from Hong Kong in the United States. The records consist of correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, financial records, and photographs relating to relief work for Chinese refugees. Files on Claire Chennault, Charles Edison, Christopher Emmet, Freedom Fund, J. Peter Grace, Joseph C. Grew, Stanley K. Hornbeck, Walter H. Judd, Arthur B. Lane, Marvin Liebman, Henry Luce, and A. C. Wedemeyer.

Reference:

Madeline Hsu, "Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, Inc. (1952-1970): The Economic and Symbolic Uses of Refugee Admission" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Grand Hyatt, San Antonio, TX, . 2014-11-26

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf0x0n97kd/entire_text/

[0029] Alabama associations collection, 1850-1984, LPR136

Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History, P.O. Box 300100, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Description: This collection contains a wide variety of materials, such as minutes, programs, and histories from various associations throughout the state of Alabama. A folder on the Ku Klux Klan contains a copy of Alabama KKK Newsletter, June 1926, which prints an anti-Catholic poem by Elsie Thornton, "The Pope's Last Call."

Websites with information:

http://www.alabamamoments.alabama.gov/sec46ps.html

Catalogue search engine:

http://archives-alabama-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/­search.do?vid=01ALABAMA

[0029a] Alabama Citizen's Council Oral History, 1979, MSS.0025 [oral history]

Location: W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, University of Alabama, Box 870266, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0266

Description: A collection of audiotapes and typed transcripts of interviews conducted with former members of the Alabama Citizen's Council from Tuscaloosa, Centerville, Birmingham, and other chapters across Alabama, by students in Dr. Culpepper Clark's SCT 536 class, spring 1979. Interviewees included both men and women and they were asked about the membership and motivations of the organization, reactions to Autherine Lucy's enrollment at the University of Alabama, the role of their chapters during the Civil Rights movement in Alabama, and related topics.

Websites with information:

http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/search/all/localbroad:%22Civil%20Rights%20and%20Human%20Rights%22

http://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=721

Finding aid:

http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/u0003_0000025

[0029b] Alabama Governor administrative assistants' files, 1961-1972 and n.d.

Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Description: Files on Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka; Committee on Constitutional Government- Governor's Advisory Committee; Court decisions and elections - re: racial matters; Defenders of the American Constitution; Discrimination against whites; Federal Reserve System law suit against Federal Reserve System; 14th Amendment - History and background; Gun control; Martin Luther King; Ku Klux Klan; Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace; Liberty Amendment; Liberty Lobby; Manion Forum; Minutemen; Miscegenation case (Florida, 1964) [McLaughlin v. Florida, 379 U.S. 184 (1964)]; Miscegenation case (VA, 1966) [Loving v. Commonwealth, 206 Va. 924, 147 S.E.2d 78 (1966)]; N.A.A.C.P.; National Conservative Council; National Council of Churches; poll tax; Pornography; Prayer Amendment; Karl Prussion; Race Relations Law Reporter; Racial incidents and violence; Rhodesia; Right to work laws - Taft-Hartley Act 14B; Arch E. Roberts, Major USAF; Segregation; Socialism; Southern Conference Educational Fund; Senator John Sparkman; Governor George C. Wallace - Speeches & opinions; State Sovereignty Commission - Committee for Fundamental Freedoms; States' rights; States' Rights Party of 1948; Test Ban Treaty; Strom Thurmond; United Nations; and Gen. Edwin A. Walker.

Catalogue search engine:

http://archives-alabama-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/­search.do?vid=01ALABAMA

Finding aid:

http://www.archives.state.al.us/findaids/v9010f.htm

[0029c] Alabama Governor administrative files-miscellaneous, 1963-1979

Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Description: Files on 'Abortion and the U.S. Supreme Court'; Bible Reading in Public Schools; Bussing-Regarding Supreme Court Decision (1971) [Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education]; Desegregation --'Fulfilling the Letter and Spirit of the Law: Desegregation of the Nation's Public Schools' [Fulfilling the Letter and the Spirit of the Law: Desegregation of the Nation's Public Schools - a Report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, D.C., August, 1976, online at https://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/documents/cr

12l412.pdf]; Gun Control and Crime; Liberty Lobby-The Story of George C. Wallace; National Review: What Makes Wallace Run? ["What Makes Wallace Run?" by James Jackson Kilpatrick, National Review, April 18, 1967, pp. 400-409]; North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Wallace Speaks Out On The; and States Rights and Peoples Rights, George C. Wallace Speaks Out On.

Catalogue search engine:

http://archives-alabama-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/­search.do?vid=01ALABAMA

Finding aid:

http://www.archives.state.al.us/findaids/v16084f.htm

[0030] Alabama Labor Archives & History, Vertical File

Location: The Alabama Labor Archives and History, 435 S. McDonough Street, Montgomery, Alabama 36104

Description: Vertical files on Right to Work Bill – 1951-1956; Right to Work Bill Newspaper Clippings; Christian American, Attack on Labor Legislation – 1944-1945; H.R. 3020 – Taft-Hartley Act – 1947-1948; Integration/Desegregation – 1942-1956; Right-to-Work Law, Repeal – 1955; Taft-Hartley Anti-Labor Bill; Anti-Labor Legislation; Poll Tax; Child Labor Law; Equal Rights Amendment; and Civil Rights – 1949.