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

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[0036] Alberta Social Credit, 1934-1938, COLL MISC 0090

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

Description: William Aberhart (1878-1943), founder of the Social Credit Party, began his career as a high school teacher and religious-radio-show host in Calgary, Alberta. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Aberhardt formed a political party that proposed that the government set fair prices for all goods and that a dividend of $25 be paid by the government to all consumers. Aberhart added his own brand of religious fundamentalism to these radical economic theories, which became popular in Alberta. The Social Credit party controlled the province's legislature until the early 1970s. Collection of pamphlets, reports, cartoons, etc of William Aberhardt's social credit proposals for the province of Alberta, Canada.

Websites with information:

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

Finding aid:

http://library-2.lse.ac.uk/archives/handlists/CollMisc0090/CollMisc0090.html

[0037] Alberta Social Credit League. Offerdale Social Credit Group fonds, 1935-1986, wet-108

Location: City of Wetaskiwin Archives, 4904 - 51 Street, Wetaskiwin, Alberta, T9A 1L2, Canada

Description: The fonds consists of materials created the Offerdale Group of the Alberta Social Credit Party from 1935- 1986. The fonds consists of these series: 1. Minutes (1935-1985) Series consists of the minute books of the Offerdale Group of the Alberta Social Credit Party. 2. Financial (1942- 1986) consists of bank statements, receipts, receipt books and other materials related to the group's financial operations. 3. Miscellaneous (ca.1940-ca. 1980) consists of third party publications, ephemera, and other materials created or collected by the Offerdale Group of the Alberta Social Credit League.

Finding aid:

http://www.albertaonrecord.ca/alberta-social-credit-league-offerdale-social-credit-group-fonds

[0038] C. Earl Albrecht papers, 1905-1996, HMC-0375

Location: Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508

Description: Conrad Earl Albrecht (1905-1997) was a Matanuska Colony doctor, health commissioner, and circumpolar health advocate. The collection consists of papers and publications documenting C. Earl Albrecht's career in medicine and public health administration, primarily in Alaska. Part VII. Health-related subject files, 1934-1989, contains legislative and legal papers on the Alaska Mental Health Act (H.R. 6376), including reports and correspondence on the need for a mental health hospital in Alaska.

Websites with information:

http://consortiumlibrary.org/archives/CollectionsList/alphalists/A.html

Finding aid:

http://consortiumlibrary.org/archives/FindingAids/hmc-0375.html

[0039] Hugh Meade Alcorn, Jr., Papers, 1957-1963, ML-85

Location: Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College, 6065 Webster Hall, Hanover, NH 03755

Description: The materials that make up the collection are exclusively concerned with the years that Meade Alcorn (1907-1992) served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee during the second Eisenhower Administration (1957-1959). The materials themselves consist of correspondence, clippings, newsletters, pamphlets, reports, proposals, financial records, news releases, and many other items. Includes "What Is 'The Law of the Land?'" by Samuel B. Pettengill, in Human Events, October 5, 1957; "Who Profits From Free Enterprise?" by Benjamin F. Fairless, in Spotlight for the Nation, published by Committee For Constitutional Government, Inc., New York, 1954; excerpt from Businessmen's Complex, by Raymond Moley; The State of the Unions, excerpts, by Ralph W. Gwinn, M.C., at Allegheny County League of Women Voters, Pittsburgh, February 27, 1958; "Why the Republicans Lost the Congress and How They Can Win It Back," by Ralph W. Gwinn, in Human Events, January 26, 1957; What Has Happened to the Republican Party in Michigan?, by Barry Goldwater; at United Republican Dinner, Detroit, January 20, 1958; Proposal: 1958 Budget Proposals, Young Republican National Federation, John M. Ashbrook, Chairman; December 1957; and Exclusive, by Fulton Lewis, Jr., September 18, 1957.

Websites with information:

http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/index_ab.html

Finding aid:

http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ml85.html

[0039a] Alert America Association flyers, 1962-1969

Location: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Box 90185, 103 Perkins Library, Durham, North Carolina 27708

Description: The Alert Americans Association (also known as Alert America Association) was an extreme right organization based in Los Angeles, Calif. Collection comprises flyers distributed by the Alert America Association during the 1960s. Topics include the Nixon administration, promotion of segregation, the Vietnam War, and opposition to the United Nations and to fluoridated water.

Websites with information:

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/881278132

http://www.worldcat.org/title/alert-america-association-flyers-1962-1969/oclc/881278132

[0040] Fred D. Alexander Papers, 1908, 1931-1998 (bulk 1946-1980), MS0091

Location: J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001

Description: Public papers of Frederick Douglas Alexander (1910-1980), a Charlotte politician and civil rights leader. Includes a copy of "Here is what the 'Civil Rights' proposals would do in Georgia: F. E. P. C. explained," a pamphlet (ca. 1948) supporting Herman Talmadge for governor of Georgia against Ellis Arnall, who is condemned for his support of the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC); a flier (1950) from Know the Truth Committee accusing U. S. Senator Frank Porter Graham of favoring "mingling of the races" and urging support for his opponent Willis Smith; a letter (ca. 1956) from Patriots of North Carolina, Inc. opposing school integration; a report (ca. 1957-58) from North Carolina Virginia office of Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith concerning Ku Klux Klan activities in North Carolina; the platform (n.d.) of the North Carolina Defenders of States Rights, Inc.; and a letter (9-25-72) from Democrats for Helms supporting Jesse Helms for the United States Senate.

Websites with information:

https://libaws.uncc.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts

https://web.archive.org/web/20150929061913/http://specialcollections.uncc.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts

Finding aids:

https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/427

http://library.uncc.edu/manuscript/ms0091

https://library.uncc.edu/manuscript/ms0091

[0041] Robert Jackson Alexander Papers, 1890(1945)-1999, MC 974

Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, 169 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Description: A professor of economics at Rutgers University, Robert J. Alexander (1918-2010) conducted interdisciplinary research focused on Latin America, where he frequently traveled to conduct interviews, Spain (particularly the opposition to Franco) and international radical movements. Subject files include files on fascist, radical, and national revolutionary parties in Latin America. Folders on Communists and International Right Opposition, 1930-1940; Fascists--Argentina, 1925-1956; Fascists--Bolivia, 1942-1976; Fascists--Bolivia--Falange, 1967-1982; Fascists--Brazil, 1934-1965; Fascists--Chile--Nazis, 1933-1966; Fascists--Chile--Partido Nacional (Conservative), 1969-1972; Fascists--Colombia, 1940-1942; Fascists--Latin America--History and Miscellany, 1933-1944; Fascists--Mexico, 1935-1958; and U.S.--Politics--Conservatives, 1990; U.S.--Politics--New Right, 1983-1986.