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

Finding aid:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.collins

http://drs.library.yale.edu/fedora/get/beinecke:collins/PDF

[0625] William M. Colmer Papers, 1933-1973, Coll. M24

Location: Special Collections, McCain Library and Archives, The University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive #5148, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5148

Description: Colmer (1890-1980) was elected to his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1933. Although he entered the Congress as a Franklin D. Roosevelt New Dealer and remained a life-long member of the Democratic Party, he frequently supported Republican candidates and his political philosophy evolved toward conservatism. Correspondence, legislative files, speeches, newsletters, photographs, motion picture film, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks and artifacts. Correspondence from James F. Byrnes, Senator Pat McCarran, Dorothy Thompson, and Ex-Senator Wheeler. Statement on the Supreme Court's school segregation decision, May 17, 1954. Congressional Record copy of the Southern Manifesto called "Statement of Constitutional Principles," etcetera); 1954, 1956 (Manila envelope with signatures on second Southern Manifesto called "Warning of Grave Danger" - July 13, 1956 [online at http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/ref/collection/JWS_race/id/2054 and at https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=

cqal56-1349403]); 1954, 1953-55. Files on Anti-Communist Legislation, Anti-Lynch Bill, Anti-Poll Tax Bill, Senator Bilbo, Citation of Joseph P. Kamp, August 31, 1950, David Lawrence, General MacArthur, Senator McCarthy, Raymond Moley, Wright Patman, Poll Tax, Putnam Letter, January 29, 1959, School Segregation, Share-The-Wealth - 1935 (Huey Long's proposal), States' Rights, Senator Stennis, Senator Talmadge, and Senator Thurmond; and Four-page letter to President Eisenhower re Civil Rights Bill - July 12, 1957 - mimeographed [online at http://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/­lcdl/catalog/lcdl:87102].

Reference:

Alan Brinkley, "Huey Long, The Share Our Wealth Movement, and the Limits of Depression Dissidence," Louisiana History 22.2 (Spring 1981), pp. 117-134, http://vi.uh.edu/pages/buzzmat/Radhistory/radical%20­history%20articles/Huey%20Long%20and%20Limits%20of%20US%20Dissent.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://www.lib.usm.edu/spcol/collections/manuscripts/lists-of-collections/alphabetical.html

Finding aids:

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024bfl.htm

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024bfltext.htm

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm?m024text.htm~mainFrame

http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024bfl.htm?m024bfltext.htm~mainFrame

http://lib.usm.edu/spcol/collections/manuscripts/finding_aids/m024

[0625a] Harry W. Colmery Collection, ca. 1911-ca. 1979 (bulk ca. 1925-ca. 1965), Ms. Collection no. 795

Location: Kansas Historical Society, 6425 SW 6th Avenue, Topeka, KS 66615-1099

Description: Harry Walter Colmery (1890-1979) was a lawyer, insurance agent, and politician of Topeka, Kan., Washington, D.C. Colmery was elected National Commander of the American Legion in 1936. During the 1940 presidential campaign, Harry was the National Chairman of the Willkie War Veterans National Committee, and in 1964 he chaired the Veterans Task Force for Goldwater-Miller. Series 3. Political. [Subseries 2]. 1940 Wilkie Presidential Campaign: Folder Index, contains files on Republican National Committee Publicity Releases and Other Statements; Willkie; and Willkie War Veterans National Committee. [Subseries 4]. 1964 Goldwater Presidential Campaign, contains files on Citizens for Goldwater Committee; Barry Goldwater; Republican National Convention – 1964; and Veterans for Goldwater Committee. [Subseries 5]. Political Matters, 1935-1936, contains files on Frank Knox for Vice-President and Alf F. Landon for President. [Subseries 6]. Republican Party, contains files on National Republican Congressional Committee Pamphlets; Veterans Advisory Committee, Republication National Committee; and Republican War Veterans. [Subseries 7]. Miscellaneous, contains a file on The Dan Smoot Report. [Subseries 8]. Books and Publications, contains copies of A Great Constructive Contribution to the First of the Sciences by the President of the United States: Letter to the President on Foreign Trade, by George N. Peek (New York: Chemical Foundation, Inc., June 1934); and A Primer: Comment on the Great Constructive Work of the President of the United States in Making Arithmetic the Basic Science of Government, by Samuel Crowther (New York: Chemical Foundation, Inc., November 1934).

Finding aids:

http://www.kshs.org/archives/45598

http://www.kshs.org/research/collections/documents/personalpapers/findingaids/colmery_harry_collection.pdf

[0626] Nikki Colodny papers, 1978-1995, Coll. 2188

Location: Department of Special Collections, Manuscripts Division, Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575

Description: Dr. Nikki Colodny (1948- ) was a pro-choice activist, abortion provider, and women's health advocate operating in Toronto, Ontario, throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Most prominently, she worked with Dr. Henry Morgentaler, providing medical care and abortion services which at the time were illegal. Their arrests and repeated harassment brought publicity to their cause, eventually precipitating the 1988 overturn of abortion law by the Supreme Court of Canada. This collection contains records from several clinics and advocacy organizations with which she was active, in addition to press coverage of her activities and research materials. Files on Campaign Life Coalition News (December 1987, March 1988), Dr. Morgentaler and Dr. Colodny arrests. 1987, Protests/ Harassment outside of abortion clinics, Homophobia, Abortion shooting media coverage, and anti-choice materials.

Websites with information:

http://www.csw.ucla.edu/publications/MakingInvisibleHistoriesVisiblePartII.pdf

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8sn0c7w/entire_text/

[0626a] Colorado for Family Values Collection, 1992-1997, MSS #1699

Location: Stephen H. Hart Research Center, History Colorado, 1200 Broadway, Denver, Colorado 80203

Description: Collection consists of editorials and other printed material, as well as videos, detailing Colorado for Family Values' advocacy of the anti-gay legislation Amendment Two.

Websites with information:

http://c70003.eos-intl.net/C70003/OPAC/Details/Record.aspx?BibCode=3492206

http://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/files/Researchers/GLBTResourceGuide.pdf

[0627] [Colorado Right-to-Work battle of 1958].

Location: Denver Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, 140 Sheridan Boulevard, Suite 303, Denver, CO 80226

Description: In 1958, right to work was on the Colorado ballot but went down to defeat at the polls. The Denver Area Labor Federation archives contain material on the 1958 Colorado Right-to-Work battle.

Reference:

Labor Archives in the United States and Canada: A Directory Prepared by the Labor Archives Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists (2011), https://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/laws/­copy_of_labor-archives-in-the-united-states-canada-a-directory, http://www2.­archivists.org/sites/all/files/Directory%20of%20Labor%20Archives

%20(2011).pdf, http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/laws/copy_of_labor-archives-in-the-united-states

-canada-a-directory.

Website:

http://www.denverlabor.org/

[0627a] Colorado Subject Collection CSC.BIO Biographical files, 1829-2011

Location: Stephen H. Hart Research Center, History Colorado, 1200 Broadway, Denver, Colorado 80203

Description: The Biographical files contain information on numerous individuals, either residents of Colorado or important figures in Colorado history. They are part of a larger collection of material, the Colorado Subject Collection, which is composed of Biographical files, Geographical files, and Subject files. Materials include birth certificates, marriage certificates, deeds, correspondence, certificates of military service, biographical sketches, newspaper clippings, obituaries, and genealogical information. Files on Gov. William H. Adams [Brochure titled Adams and the Ku Klux Klan, by Carrol Joe Carter (1980)]; Charles F. Brannan; Gov. Ralph L. Carr; Sen. Peter H. Dominick; Kenneth Goff; Herbert Hoover; Dr. John Galen Locke; Gifford Pinchot; and Philip S. Van Cise [Philip S. Van Cise, by Edwin P. Van Cise (n.d.)].