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

Websites with information:

http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/library/findingaids/

Finding aid:

http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/library/findingaids/Clymer_Adam.pdf

[0601] Coalition for Central America Records, 1979-1996 (bulk 1986-1996), MG 405

Location: Special Collections & Archives, University of Idaho Library, 875 Perimeter Drive MS 2350, Moscow, ID 83844-2350

Description: The Coalition for Central America was a grassroots organization based in Moscow, Idaho from 1985 until 1996. The group was originally called the Moscow Central America Solidarity Organization. The name was changed in 1986 to reflect a wider outreach effort. The purpose of the coalition was to raise public awareness and change U.S. foreign policy in Central America. Later, the group's efforts included other countries and causes in the region around Central America, South America, and Mexico. Series II. Resource Material, contains numerous files on the Contras, Contra Aid, and Oliver North.

Websites with information:

http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/searchall.html

http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Manuscripts/

Finding aids:

http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Manuscripts/mg405.htm

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv83796

http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv83796

[0602] Cheryl Coatney collection on Proposition 8, 2008-2009, MSS 6801

Location: L. Tom Perry Special Collections; 21st Century Western & Mormon Manuscripts; 1130 Harold B. Lee Library; Brigham Young University; Provo, Utah 84602

Description: Contains newspaper clippings, email printouts, and a political banner related to Proposition 8, the bill proposing an amendment to the California constitution to define marriage between one man and one woman, collected by Cheryl Coatney, September 2008-March 2009. Proposition 8 was approved in the November 2008 election.

Websites with information:

https://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/browse.php

Finding aid:

http://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/viewItem/MSS%206801

[0602a] Osro Cobb Collection, 1929-1980, M96-11

Location: UCA Archives, Torreyson Library, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway, AR 72035

Description: Osro Cobb (1904-1995) was an Arkansas lawyer, state representative, state chairman of the Republican Party of Arkansas, U.S. Attorney for the District during the 1957 Little Rock School Integration Crisis, and judge on the Arkansas Supreme Court. Files on Governor Orval E. Faubus; Hoxie School District vs. White America, Inc., 1955-1956; and Little Rock School Integration.

Websites with information:

http://uca.edu/archives/manuscript-collections/

Finding aid:

http://uca.edu/archives/m96-11-osro-cobb-collection/

[0603] Charles Coburn papers, 1892-1959, MS 1126

Location: Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Russell Special Collections Building, University of Georgia, 300 S. Hull Street, Athens, GA 30602

Description: Charles Douville Coburn (1877-1961), born in Macon, GA, was a prominent stage and screen actor, manager, director, and producer. The collection includes scrapbooks, scripts, photographs, and interviews. Three political scrapbooks, dated 1950-53, 1953-56, and 1959, 1960-61, contain various politically oriented newspaper and magazine clippings dealing with Coburn's involvement in Republican politics, anti-Communism, anti-income tax, McCarthyism, and 'Jeffersonian' ideals.

Finding aids:

http://hmfa.libs.uga.edu/hmfa/view?docId=ead/ms1126-ead.xml

http://fax.libs.uga.edu/hmans/1f/hargrett_manuscripts_Ca.txt

http://fax.libs.uga.edu/hmans/1f/hargrett_manuscripts_Coa.pdf

[0604] Oscar Cohen Papers, 1955-1985, Manuscript Collection No. 294

Location: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220

Description: Oscar Cohen (1908-1985) was National Program Director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL), 1954-1975. The papers contain materials pertaining to Cohen's activities as National Program Director and his research into the area of Jewish-Christian relations. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, reports, polls, bibliographies, proposals, newsclippings and miscellaneous items. Series B. Anti-Semitism. Sub-Series 1. General, contains files on Anti-Semitism, "Anti-Semitism in America, 1654-1930" (report, 1969), "Anti-Semitism in the U.S." (report, 1981), Anti-Zionism, Catholic anti-Semitism, Charles E. Coughlin, Harold Covington, Dreyfus Case, Employment Discrimination, Extremism, Henry Ford, Leo M. Frank Case, German-American Bund, Ulysses S. Grant (General Order No. 11 (1862)), History of American anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Immigration Restriction, Ku Klux Klan, Charles A. Lindbergh, Tom Metzger, Nazi Party, U.S.A., Philadelphia, Pa. Nazi Rally 1979, Protestant anti-Semitism, race relations in armed forces, Red Scare Era, and Swastika Epidemic. Series D. Contemporary Social Issues, contains files on Arthur R. Butz, John Birch Society, and J.B. Stoner.

Websites with information:

http://americanjewisharchives.org/collections/findingAids.php

Finding aids:

http://americanjewisharchives.org/collections/ms0294/

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0294/ms0294.html

[0605] COINTELPRO: The Counterintelligence Program of the FBI (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1978) [microfilm]

Description: The FBI Counterintelligence Program file contains details of the bureau's attempts to "expose, disrupt, and neutralize" groups that J. Edgar Hoover perceived as threatening to national security. The file, spanning COINTELPRO's existence from 1956 to 1971, contains Federal Bureau of Investigation memoranda and directives documenting the FBI's investigation of, infiltration of and other activities relative to such groups as the Communist Party of the USA, Black Nationalist Hate Groups, White Hate Groups (Ku Klux Klan, American Nazi Party, the National States Rights Party), the Socialist Workers Party, and Cuban groups supporting Fidel Castro.

Websites with information:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131005055240/http://www.chipublib.org/branch/details/library/woodson-regional/p/HarshMicro//

http://libguides.princeton.edu/aas

[0606] Bainbridge Colby Papers, 1863-1950 (bulk 1912-1950), MSS16360

Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Room LM 101, James Madison Memorial Bldg, Washington, D.C. 20540-4680

Description: Colby (1869-1950), a lawyer, assisted in organizing the Progressive Party and supported the presidential candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. He was Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state in 1920-21. The papers consist of correspondence, letterbooks, speeches, notebooks, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, and other papers. Although he was an early supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Colby eventually became a critic of the New Deal, formed the anti-Roosevelt American Liberty League, and supported the Republican Party candidate Alfred M. Landon in the 1936 presidential election. Scrapbooks include material on these topics. Also contains correspondence with John Spargo.

Websites with information:

http://findingaids.loc.gov/browse/collections/c

http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/mssfa.html

Finding aids:

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011091

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011091.3

[0607] The Cold War and Internal Security Collection

Location: Joyner Library, East Carolina University, East Fifth Street, Greenville, NC 27858-4353

Description: The Cold War and Internal Security (CWIS) Collection includes over 1,000 volumes of congressional hearings, committee prints and committee reports from the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), its successor the House Committee on Internal Security (HCIS), the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (SPSI), and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS), covering the years 1934-1976. The contents of the collection cover congressional investigations of organizations deemed "subversive" or "un-American", primarily the Communist Party USA and its allies. Other subjects of investigation include the New Left, the Ku Klux Klan (including the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina), the Black Panthers, 1930s and 40s pro-Nazi organizations, the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans, Hiss v. Chambers, the Army-McCarthy hearings, the German-American Bund, and the Silver Legion of America.