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

[0538a] Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion

Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, at Richard Gilder Way (77th Street), New York, NY 10024 [online exhibition]

Description: Throughout the 1870s, anti-Chinese sentiment began to infiltrate American political discourse. Led primarily by legislators in California, Congress began to seek laws to restrict Chinese immigration, resulting in passage of the most restrictive immigration law ever adopted by Congress: the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943, and in 2012 Congress issued a formal apology to Chinese-American people, expressing regret for the discriminatory law. The online exhibition treats, in part, the Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred most Chinese from entering the United States, and the Chinese American activists who used the American justice system to try to overturn the Exclusion Act. The exhibition includes George Frederick Keller's cartoon "What shall we do with our boys?" (The Wasp, March 3, 1882), which illustrates the stereotype of unemployed white workers forced to turn to loitering and crime because Chinese immigrants took their jobs. Also included is a newspaper advertisement, sponsored by Friends of China and Advocates of Justice ("Write Your Congressman," Chinese Press, September 10, 1943), urging Americans to write their congressman and demand the repeal of Chinese Exclusion.

Websites with information:

http://blog.nyhistory.org/george-frederick-seward-and-the-chinese-exclusion-act/

https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/chineseamerican

http://chineseamerican.nyhistory.org/

http://chineseamerican.nyhistory.org/exhibition-highlights/what-shall-we-do-with-our-boys/

[0539] The Chinese in California Virtual Archive, 1850-1925 [digital collection]

Location: The Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California 94720-6000; The Ethnic Studies Library, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-6000; California Historical Society, North Baker Research Library, San Francisco, California 94105-4014

Description: The Chinese in California, 1850-1925, illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter. From their arrival during the Gold Rush, the Chinese experienced discrimination and often overt racism, and finally exclusion. Legislation was used against Chinese immigrants beginning with the 1850 Foreign Miners' License Tax law. During the economic downturn in the 1870s, racist labor union leaders directed their actions and the anger of unemployed workers at the Chinese, blaming them for depressed wages and lack of jobs, and accusing them of being morally corrupt. The theme Anti-Chinese Movement and Chinese Exclusion, contains such items as William Tell Coleman statements: and other material 1870-1893, concerning his Committee of Public Safety (1877), which worked to quash anti-Chinese riots promoted by Dennis Kearney, leader of the Workingmen's Party of California, and his followers; and copies of For the re-enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Law (San Francisco: Star Press, c [1901]); Eugene Casserly, The Chinese evil—Contracts for Servile Labor—Chinese Immigration the Great Danger ([Washington, 1870]); The Labor agitators, or, The battle for bread (San Francisco: Geo. W. Greene, [Workingman's Party, 1879?]); and Charles N. Felton, The evils of Mongolian immigration: the Chinese question ([Washington, D.C.: s.n., 1892]).

Websites with information:

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/chineseinca/

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/chineseinca/antichinese.html

http://chineseamerican.nyhistory.org/resources/

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5p3019m2/entire_text/

Online exhibition:

Reproduces the cover illustration "The Chinese: Many Handed But Soulless" from The Wasp, v. 15, July - Dec. 1885.

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/chineseinca/

http://vm136.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/collections/chineseinca/

[0539a] Chinese Nationalist Party, Sacramento Branch Records, 1920-1950, D-047

Location: Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis, 100 NW Quad, Davis, California 95616-5292

Description: The Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) of Sacramento was founded in 1920 to support the effort of the nationalist movement led by Chiang Kai-shek. Pamphlets, photographs, correspondence, and posters regarding the Chinese Nationalist Party of Sacramento.

Websites with information:

https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/special-collections/manuscripts/political-science/

https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/special-collections/manuscript/chinese-nationalist-party-collection/

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8ff3v3v/entire_text/

[0540] Choice Foundation Collection, 1980-2000, Mss. 683

Location: Texas Woman's University, The Woman's Collection, P.O. Box 425528, Denton, TX 76204

Description: The Choice Foundation is a non-profit, educational organization working at the local level in Dallas, Texas, to promote and protect full reproductive freedom for all women. Correspondence, educational pamphlets and brochures, photographs, posters, and clipping files educating the public about the issue of abortion rights. Also includes correspondence, files, brochures, signs and posters, and hate mail from pro-life groups and individuals. Series 2: Subject Files, contains files on Abortion Abolition Society, Action League for life, American Center for Law and Justice, American Rights Coalition, American Coalition of Life Activists, Anthony (the Susan B. Anthony List), Anti-Abortion Measures before Congress 1981, Bork Opposition 1987, Catholics United for Life, Center For Constitutional Rights CCR, Civil Rights Restoration Act, Collegians For Life, Concerned Women For America, Dallas Right to Life, Dallas Rescues, Fake Clinics, Feminists For Life of America, Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, Human Life Bill, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Lambs of Christ, Life Amendment Political Action Committee, Life Chain, (The) Meeting Place, Moral Majority, Operation Rescue, Pittsburgh Center For Peace, Pro Life, Pro Life Action League, Right To Life, Rutherford Institute, Saint Martin de Porres Lay Dominican Community New Hope, Kentucky, Silent Scream: American Portrait Films (Anti), Texans United For Life (Bill Price), Texas Freedom Alliance, and White Rose Women's Center. Series 3: Biofiles, contains files on Joan and Rick Blinn (Operation Rescue Supporters), Brookline Massacre (See also John Salvi), Barbara Bush, George Bush, George W. Bush, Paul Hill, Norma McCorvey, Bill Price of Texans United for Life (Pro-Life anti Charlotte Taft), John C. Salvi,(Brookline Massacre), Joseph Scheidler (anti-abortion activist), Phyllis Schlafly, and Randall Terry. Series 4: Organizations, contains files on Dallas Pro-Life and Right To Life Literature.

Finding aids:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/twu/00019/twu-00019.html

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/twu/00019/00019-P.html

[0541] Choice leaflets, 1981-1983, COLL MISC 0977

Location: Archive and Special collections, British Library of Political and Economic Science, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD, England

Description: Letter and leaflets from the Fight-Back campaign, organised by Jane Birdwood's journal "Choice." The campaign opposed a multi-racial Britain.

Websites with information:

http://library-2.lse.ac.uk/archives/handlists/

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