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

Finding aids:

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/hoover/81141.pdf

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7w1036nz/entire_text/

[0567] Citizens for Traditional Values Records, 1984-2000 (bulk 1986-1992), 0369; Bt 2

Location: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, 1150 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113

Description: The Citizens for Traditional Values record group documents four separate but interrelated organizations having many of the same members and sharing a strategy aimed at uniting conservative Christians on behalf of similarly-minded candidates for office. These organizations were The Freedom Council (FC) (1985-1987), the Michigan Committee for Freedom (MCFF) (1986-1992), the MCFF offshoot organization Celebrate Life (1989-1992), and the Citizens for Traditional Values (1991-present). The records contains a variety of documentary materials such as office files, correspondence, budgets, reports, fundraising information, draft materials, and news clippings to give a well-rounded view of the conservative Christian political scene in Michigan. The series Background Information, 1986-1992, includes an oral history interview made with James Muffett describing the delegate selection process leading to the 1987 Michigan Republican presidential candidate nomination for Pat Robertson. The series The Freedom Council, 1985-1988, contains files on Pat Robertson and Americans for Robertson. The series Michigan Committee For Freedom, 1986-1992. Subseries Fundraising, 1985-1991, contains files on Fundraising Assistance to Pat Robertson (donor list) and Fundraising Events by Pat Robertson, Oliver North, and John Stormer. Subseries Visual, ca. 1988, contains videos by Marlene Elwell, Pat Robertson, and Americans for Robertson on behalf of the campaign of Pat Robertson. Subseries Delegates, 1985-1987, contains files on Action 86 (Right to Life Political Action Committee) and Pat Robertson at Freedom Rally. The series Celebrate Life, 1989-1992. Subseries Phase I, 1989-1990, includes information about the creation of newspaper inserts distributed across the state promoting a pro-life viewpoint.

Websites with information:

http://bentley.umich.edu/EAD/ead_cd.htm

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/81640737

http://www.worldcat.org/title/citizens-for-traditional-values-records-1984-2000/oclc/81640737

Finding aids:

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-0369?rgn=main;view=text

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead;id=navbarbrowselink;cginame=findaid-idx;cc=bhlead;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=umich-bhl-0369

[0568] Civil Rights Collection of the Nashville Public Library, 2001- ongoing

Location: Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, TN 37219

Description: The collection consists of primary and secondary sources documenting the modern civil rights movement, with material on events, participants, and social movements aimed at dismantling public and private acts of segregation. Materials in the collection include published audio and video imprints, ephemera and memorabilia, oral histories, periodicals, photographs, and records and manuscripts. Series II. Civil Rights Ephemera Collection, contains copies of A First Step Toward School Integration, by Anna Holden (Nashville CORE, May 1958) [on John Kasper in Nashville, Tennessee, in the fall of 1957; online at http://www.crmvet.org/docs/5806_nashv_school.pdf]; Tennessee White Citizens Council. Membership Application; and White Racism: Communication and Confrontation (Tennessee Council on Human Relations, 1968). Series IV. Civil Rights Periodicals Collection, includes a copy of Kansas City Star, Vol. 120, No. 218, September 11, 1957, containing articles on John Kasper and school desegregation.

Websites with information:

https://catalog.library.nashville.org/Record/.b18287797/

http://www.library.nashville.org/localhistory/his_spcoll_coll_findingaids.asp

http://www.library.nashville.org/civilrights/collection.htm

Finding aids:

https://library.nashville.org/sites/default/files/civil_rights_collection.pdf

http://www.library.nashville.org/localhistory/findingaids/Special_Collections_Division_Finding_Aid_Civil_Righ

ts_Collec.pdf

[0569] The Civil Rights Congress of Michigan Collection, 1933-1963 (bulk 1935-1955), UR000304

Location: Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University, 5401 Cass Ave., Detroit, MI 48202

Description: The Civil Rights Congress of Michigan was organized in 1935 as the Conference for the Protection of Civil Rights. The Conference opposed, among other things, the Black Legion and the Ku Klux Klan, fascism, and discrimination. About 1938 the name of the group was changed to the Civil Rights Federation. From 1941 the group attacked the Dies Committee, the Mundt-Nixon Bills, and the Smith Act. About 1945 the name of the organization changed to the Civil Rights Congress. They dissolved in 1955. Correspondents include Charles Beard and Granville Hicks. Part 1, Series II, Black Legion - KKK, 1936-1952, contains files on Black Legion, KKK, and KKK - United Sons of America. Series III, Fascism, 1933-1947, contains files on America First Committee, American Legion, American Mothers, Anglo-Saxon Federation, Anti-Communist Propaganda, Anti-Nazi Activity, Axis radio, Senator Bilbo, John Bugas, Father Coughlin, Father Coughlin - Social Justice, The Cross and The Flag, Leo Donnelly, Fascism, Fifth Column, Hamilton Fish, Hamilton Fish (George Hill trial), Friends of Democracy, German-American Bund, Adolf Hitler, Clare Hoffman, Industrial Legion of America, Charles Lindbergh, National Workers League, Native Fascist Organizations, Nazi Germany, Nazi spies, Nazis in United States, Nazi propaganda, Pegler, G.L.K. Smith, Harvey Springer, George Viereck, Professor Van Moltke case, Louis B. Ward, Gerald B. Winrod, Anti-Nazi Bulletin, The Fundamentalist, Germany Today, The Hour, Social Justice, and Henry Ford. Series IV, Un-American Activities, 1935-1955, contains files on Communism, Communist Party, Harry Dexter White, Dies Committee, McCarran Bill, Mundt Bills, Mundt Nixon bill, Loyalty, McCarthy, McCarthy Book burning, Red Baiting, Smith Bill - HR 5138 - 1940, Smith Act, and un-American Activities Committee. Series VII, Discrimination, 1932-1954, contains files on Anti-lynching, Anti Semitism, Discrimination - Negro, Restrictive Covenants, Anti Lynching Bill, Hobbs Concentration camp bill - 1941, McCarran Act, Anti Poll Tax Bill, and Detroit Riots - 1943. Part 2. Series XIII. Civil Rights Issues, 1933-1963, contains files on Discrimination, Anti-Semitism; Discrimination, Black Legion; Discrimination, Racial; Discrimination, Poll Tax Bill; Mundt-Nixon Bill; and Smith Act.

Websites with information:

http://reuther.wayne.edu/node/3144

http://reuther.wayne.edu/guides.html

http://reuther.wayne.edu/pdf/1984_newsletter_v5.2.pdf

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/32321154

http://www.worldcat.org/title/civil-rights-congress-of-michigan-records-1933-1963/oclc/32321154

Finding aid:

http://reuther.wayne.edu/files/UR000304.pdf

[0570] Civil Rights Database, Archives & Special Collections [online database]

Location: Valdosta State University, 1500 N. Patterson St., Valdosta, GA 31698

Description: The Civil Rights Database is an index of the Southern Patriot, a progressive southern newspaper that ran from 1942-1973 out of South Carolina. The newspaper supported and advocated desegregation before and after the Civil Rights Movement. Topics include American Independent Party, anti-lynching legislation, anti-communism, anti-labor, anti-union laws, apartheid, Association of Wallace Voters, Citizens Council, Citizens Against Busing, civil rights, William M. Colmer, Communism, Kent Courtney, cross burning, desegregation, Dirksen Amendment, James O. Eastland, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Equal Educational Opportunities Bill (anti-busing bill) (92-HR-13915: To further the achievement of equal educational opportunities), Florida HB 74 (right-to-work legislation), House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), integration, John Birch Society, John Kasper, Ku Klux Klan, lynching, Joe McCarthy, McCarthyism, Lester Maddox, James Meredith, Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, Leander H. Perez, Herbert Philbrick, poll tax, race relations, race-baiting, racism, Right-to-work law, right wing politics, right wing press, Phyllis Schlafly, school integration, Dan Smoot, John Stennis, school busing, school integration, segregation, Taft-Hartley Act, George Wallace, Lurleen Wallace, and John Bell Williams.