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

Description: This collection of approximately 3,700 titles consists of works published by and about the Communist Party and its front organizations, books, pamphlets, newspapers and mimeographed reports. Included are materials not only from the Communist Party of the U.S.A. but also from a number of Trotskyist groups including the American Workers Party, the Communist League of America, the Revolutionary Workers League, and the various youth branches and front organizations of the Left for the years between 1919 and the 1950's. There are anti-Communist materials from governmental agencies and commercial publishers as well. Among the titles are Conservative Society of America, An invitation (New Orleans, La.?); Conservative Society of America, A declaration (New Orleans, La.? 1961); Ralph M. Easley, His collection ... (n.d.); Ralph M. Easley, What does it mean (1937); John Birch Society, miscellaneous pamphlets (4); and The John Birch Society, From our mail (Belmont, Mass., 1962?).

Websites with information:

http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b5855979~S39a

http://www.lib.msu.edu/findingaids/

https://www.lib.msu.edu/findingaids/

http://spcexhibits.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/radicalism_coll_communist.jsp

Finding aid:

http://findingaids.lib.msu.edu/spc/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=195

[0641a] Files of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA), 1912-1944 (bulk 1922-1936) (Leiden, IDC Publishers, 2003) [326 microfilm reels]

Description: The Russian State Archive of Social and Political History in Moscow ("Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial'noi i politicheskoi istorii" or RGASPI) holds 20 million pages of records of the Communist International (Comintern), the agency that supervised foreign Communist parties. The Comintern archive consists of all the records created under the authority of the Executive Committee (ECCI) of the Third Communist International. It contains original documents in more than thirty languages from seven Congresses and thirteen ECCI Plenums, by more than seventy Communist and Left Socialist parties, together with different international organizations. Associated with the Comintern collections are collections of the records of individual Communist parties, including the CPUSA. The CPUSA collection is fond 515, opis 1 (there is no opis 2). Fond 515 consists of more than 400,000 pages of the original records of the Communist Party USA along with other American-related material. The files contain the original incoming mail, carbons of outgoing correspondence, reports from regional and local organizers, and internal memoranda produced by officials and offices of the national headquarters. Contains files on American Vigilant Intelligence Federation, anti-Fascism, Civil Rights in the South, Dies Committee, and Farmers' Holiday Association.

References:

Library of Congress Opens to Researchers the Records of the Communist Party, USA, January 18, 2001, http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2001/01-007.html; "Red Ink. Records of the Communist Party USA Opened," Library of Congress Information Bulletin, Vol 60, No. 2 (February 2001), http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0102/­red_ink.html; Gifts to the Nation. Americana. Preservation and Filming of American Records in Russian Archives, http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/gifts/gift180.html; "Comintern Archives: Files of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA)," http://www.brill.com/comintern-archives-files-communist-party-usa-cpusa; "Files of the Communist Party of the USA in the Comintern Archives," http://www.brill.com/sites/default/­files/ftp/downloads/31721_Brochure.pdf; Microform Collection: Files of the Communist Party of USA (CPUSA), Yale University Library Slavic and East European Collection, http://www.library.yale.edu/­slavic/microform/cpusa.html; ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: B-12, http://www.iisg.nl/abb/rep/B-12.tab5.php.

Finding aids:

http://www.brill.com/sites/default/files/ftp/downloads/31721_Guide.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20071214090500/http://www.idc.nl/pdf/353_guide.pdf

Online index to finding aid:

http://www.idcpublishers.info/cpusa/

[0642] Communist Party of the United States of America Records, 1892-2009 (bulk 1950-1990), TAM.132

Location: Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012

Description: The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist-Leninist political organization that was founded in Chicago in 1919. The collection includes a diverse mix of correspondence, convention and conference materials, essays and manuscripts, internal discussion documents, reports, speech transcripts, research files, printed ephemera, clippings, legal documents, and a wealth of personal papers. Series X: General Files, 1892-2009. Subseries E: Subject Files of Jim West, 1956-2003, contains subject files on American Nazi Party, American Opinion Bookstore, Anti Semitism (Anti-Communism), Aryan Nations Network, Aryan Resistance Movement, Black Legion, Conservative Action Foundation, Exposures of Ultra Right, Ku Klux Klan, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Liberty Forum, National Alliance Party, National Caucus of Labor Committees, National Caucus of Labor Committees (Communist Party, USA, Surveillance of), National Caucus of Labor Committees: US Labor Party, National Committee for an Effective Congress, Nationalist Socialist White People's Party, Neo-Nazis, Religious Right, Rockford Institute, Roster of Ultra-Right Media Names, Major General J.K. Singlaub, Spotlight, The Populist Party, Ultra-Right, Ultra-Right in Education, Ultra Right Newspapers, and World Anti-Communist League.

Reference:

Patricia Cohen, "Communist Party USA Gives Its History to N.Y.U.," New York Times (March 20, 2007), http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/arts/20nyu.html.

Websites with information:

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/fa_index.html

Finding aids:

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_132/

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_132/tam_132.html

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_132/dscref7847.html

[0642a] The Communist Party USA and Radical Organizations, 1953-1960: FBI Reports from the Eisenhower Library (Bethesda, MD, University Publications of America, An Imprint of CIS, 1990) [microfilm]

Description: During the Eisenhower administration, the FBI, bolstered by public and government support for surveillance of radical organizations, engaged in an extensive program to survey, analyze, and research the activities of various organizations. Radical organizations under surveillance included the CPUSA, the Nation of Islam, the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers Party, and the National Party of Puerto Rico. Contains copies of The Ku Klux Klan. Section 1, 1865-1944. August 26, 1958, and The Ku Klux Klan. Section II, 1944-1958. August 1958.

Finding aid:

http://academic.lexisnexis.com/documents/upa_cis/10834_CPUSAFBIDDELib.pdf

[0643] Concerned Women for America (Washington, D.C.) Records, 1992

Location: Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division, 816 State St., Madison, WI 53706-1417

Description: Concerned Women for America (CWA) is a Christian action group founded in 1979 by Beverly LaHaye and nine other women. This anti-feminist, pro-life organization promotes traditional and Judeo-Christian values through education and legislative programs, and coordinates legal defense and humanitarian relief activities. Included in the collection is a brochure describing the organization, plus a tape recording of a broadcast interview with Carol Everett (identified as a "former abortionist") on the "Beverly LaHaye Live" show.

Websites with information:

http://arcat.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=11804

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/173701926