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

http://hmfa.libs.uga.edu/hmfa/view?docId=ead/ms2334-ead.xml

[0698] Kent Courtney Collection, 1800s-1990s (bulk 1960s)

Location: Northwestern State University Libraries, Northwestern State University, Watson Memorial Library, Natchitoches, LA 71497

Description: The bulk of the materials include correspondence, audiotapes, newspapers and pamphlets pertaining to Kent Courtney's conservative, anti-Communist political agenda. The bulk of the items date from the 1960s. The majority of the audiotapes document Courtney's weekly radio broadcasts and are reel-to-reel format (see separate index). Information on Bruce Alger, American Coalition of Patriotic Societies, American Flag Committee, The American Volunteer Group, Americans for Freedom, Tom Anderson, Ezra Taft Benson, Hilaire du Berrier, John Birch Society, Brainwashing, Sen. Styles Bridges, Major Edgar Bundy, Canadian Intelligence Service, Citizens Councils, Communism, Communism on the Map, Richard Cotton, Counter Attack, Dan Smoot Report, Representative William Jennings Bryan Dorn, Dr. Medford Evans, Facts Forum News, Governor Orval Faubus, fluoridation, Foundation For Economic Education, Devin Garrity, Kenneth Goff, Barry Goldwater, Frank Hanighen, Billy James Hargis, Congressman Edgar Hiestand, Independent American, Sen. William E. Jenner, J. Bracken Lee, Let Freedom Ring, Liberty Amendment, Lester Maddox, Clarence Manion, Manion Forum, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, North Carolina Defenders of States' Rights, Revilo Oliver, Panama Canal, Herbert Philbrick, Eddie Rickenbacker, Right To Work Committee, John Rousselot, Dan Smoot, State Rights Convention, State Rights Party, Willis E. Stone, Task Force, General Edwin A. Walker, Governor George Wallace, Albert Wedemeyer, Robert Welch, and Felix Wittmer.

Reference:

Jeffrey H. Caufield, General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy: The Extensive New Evidence of a Radical-Right Conspiracy (Moreland Press, 2015).

Finding aids:

http://library.nsula.edu/assets/CGHRC_Finding/courtneykent.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20070927234833/http://www.nsula.edu/watson_library/cghrc_core/courtney_kent.htm

[0699] Helen Courtois Collection, 1950s, RH WL MS 12

Location: Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries, 1450 Poplar Lane, Lawrence, KS 66045

Description: Helen Courtois was the secretary and founder of the Keep America Committee, an anti-Communist organization based in Los Angeles which was active in the 1950s. The Committee acted as a reprint service, reproducing and disseminating articles from far-right publications. Courtois was also involved in Mankind United, a religious cult active during the World War II era. This collection of her papers reflects her participation in these organizations, as well as a collection of newspapers, newsletters, and other sociopolitical pamphlets and documents. The collection also contains correspondence to Courtois from several of these organizations. Files on Beacon Light Herald, Canadian Intelligence, Christian Veterans of America, Destiny Magazine, National Economic Council, Educational Reviewer, Georgia Tribune, Human Events, John Birch Society, Alfred Kohlberg, Mankind United, Patriotic Research Bureau, Wesley Swift, Task Force, Strom Thurmond, W. Henry MacFarland, Jr., and Women's Voice.

Websites with information:

http://etext.ku.edu/search?browse-creator=cc;sort=creator;route=ksrlead;brand=ksrlead

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/181100148

http://www.worldcat.org/title/helen-courtois-papers/oclc/181100148

Finding aids:

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/5358361803

http://etext.ku.edu/view?docId=ksrlead/ksrl.kc.courtoishelen.xml

[0700] Carl Alford Cowan Papers, 1950-1971

Location: East Tennessee History Center (on loan from the College Archives, Knoxville College Library), 601 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902

Description: Carl Alford Cowan (1902-1985) was an attorney who handled litigation to desegregate several school systems in East Tennessee and other places. The papers contain every issue of The Knoxville Journal and News Sentinel that mentioned the school desegregation issue in Knoxville between 1954 and 1972; transcripts of segregationist speeches made by Asa Carter and John Kasper on Sept. 30, 1956, when the White Citizens Council was organized at the Diehl farm on Callahan Road in Knox County; and files that refer to Clinton, Tenn.

References:

Robert Booker, "Booker: Carl Alford Cowan's treasured collection," Knoxville News Sentinel, Oct 28, 2008, http://www.knoxnews.com/opinion/columnists/booker-carl-alford-cowans-treasured-collection; Rachel L. Martin, "Riding the research high," May 13, 2009, http://rachelmartin.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/riding-out-the-research-high/.

Websites with information:

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/70972036

[0701] A. Eugene Cox Papers, 1953-1968, Small Manuscripts (b1976.3) [digital collection]

Location: The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848

Description: A. Eugene Cox (1905-1992) was former resident director of Providence Cooperative Farm, Holmes County, Mississippi, and later executive director of the Delta Foundation. The papers include newspaper clippings from 1955 discussing a mass meeting under the auspices of the pro-segregation White Citizens Councils in which Cox and Dr. David R. Minter were "invited" to leave Holmes County for allegedly teaching racial integration. The clippings include John Herbers, "Citizens Councils Behind Tchula 'Protest' Meeting," ca. Sept. 28, 1955; "Angry Citizens Ask White Men to Leave. Pair Accused of Advocating Racial Integration in Holmes County," ca. Sept. 29, 1955; "Memo To Some Holmes Countians" [editorial], Delta Democrat-Times, Friday, Sept. 30, 1955; Kenneth Toler, "[missing text] Over Farm Project Activities," ca. Sept. 30, 1955; Tom Karsell, "Accused Holmes Men Deny 'Red' Charges; Claim They Not Listed As Subversives," ca. late Sept. 1955; W.F. Minor, "Cox, Minter 'Bewildered' at Requests by Citizens," Times-Picayune, ca. Oct. 2, 1955; and "Elders Ask Minister to Resign in Durant," Commercial Appeal, ca. Oct. 7, 1955.

Websites with information:

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_aids/MUM00400.html

http://www.library.olemiss.edu/guides/archives_subject_guide/civil-rights?page=show

Finding aid for digital collection (from the Civil Rights Archive, University of Mississippi):

http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/search/searchterm/A.%20Eugene%20Cox%20Papers,%201953-1968%20(in

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http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/search/collection/civ_rights/searchterm/a.%20eugene%20cox%20papers%2C

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[0702] Allen Eugene Cox papers, 1880-1996 (bulk 1935-1987), MSS.45

Location: Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries, 395 Hardy Rd, P.O. Box 5408, Mississippi State, MS 39762-5408

Description: Cox (1905-1992) was former resident director of Providence Cooperative Farm, Holmes County, Mississippi, and later executive director of the Delta Foundation. The papers include correspondence, ledgers, newspaper clippings, publications, photographs and films. Series 1. Original Accession, 1967-1970, contains files on Alabama State Sovereignty Commission; Association of Christian Conservatives; Ross Barnett; Byron De La Beckwith; Letter: Hodding Carter to Cox, 12/8/1965; 'The Southern Patriot,' July 1946; Report on White Citizens' Councils by H. L. Mitchell, 1956; 'A Christian View on Segregation' by Rev. G.T. Gillespie, 1954 [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/­manu/id/1880]; Circuit Riders; a copy of The Citizens' Council; Communism-Socialism; Senator James O. Eastland; Oliver Emmerich, "A Positive Plan to Help Solve Our Racial Dilemma," Editorial, State Times, Jackson, Mississippi, Nov. 3, 1961; Federation for Constitutional Government; Percy Greene; Group Research Report; Highlander Folk School; "Highlander Folk School Communist Training School, Monteagle, Tenn." (Georgia Commission on Education, 1957); John Kasper; Ku Klux Klan; "McCarthy: A Documented Record," The Progressive, Vol. 18, No. 4, April 1954 [online at http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/­tp/id/63472]; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission; National Council of Churches-Air Force Manual; Form letter from R. B. Patterson, Secretary, Citizens' Council; Robert L. Rands, "A Mississippi Anthropologist Takes a Scientific Look at Putnam's 'Race and Reason,'" The Chronicle, Pascagoula and Moss Point, Miss., Jan. 21-24, 1963; a copy of 'Rebel Underground'; A Review of Black Monday, by Judge Tom Brady (1954); John C. Satterfield; School Desegregation-Mississippi; address by William J. Simmons, 2/3/1958; correspondence (copies): W. J. Simmons (Pres. of Citizens' Council Forum Inc. (Miss.)) to Erle Johnston, Jr. (Dir. of Miss. State Sovereignty Commission); Senator John Stennis; White Christian Protective and Legal Defense Fund; White Citizens' Council-Alabama; White Citizens' Council-Arkansas; White Citizens' Councils; White Citizens' Councils-Freedom Rides-Reverse, 1962; White Citizens' Councils-Jackson Mississippi; White Citizens' Councils-Tennessee; White Citizens' Legal Fund, Greenwood, Mississippi; The Woman Constitutionalist, Feb. 6, 1965; Press release by Mary D. Cain, president, Miss. Women for Constitutional Government. Series 2. 1971 Addendum, contains files on Citizens Council; xerox copy of 'The Klan Ledger', July, 1965; xerox copy of 'The Klansman'; Ku Klux Klan; and School Desegregation. Series 3. 1972 Addendum, contains files on Americans for the Preservation of the White Race, Byron De La Beckwith, and Governor George Wallace. Series 4. 1973 Addendum, contains files on Citizen's Councils, 1955-1972, including a copy of Reese Cleghorn, Radicalism: Southern Style. A Commentary on Regional Extremism of the Right, Southern Regional Council, 1968; National States Rights Party, 1972 and undated, including copies of "The Historical Documentation of the Benjamin Franklin Statement", pub. by Dr. Edward R. Fields, Georgia, and J.B. Stoner, "Christ Not a Jew---"; John Birch Society, 1961-1971, with clippings, pamphlets, lists of right wing radio programs, lists of right wing periodicals; Churches Burned, 1964-1970; Group Research, 1963-1968, including copies of 'Group Research Report', vol.2, nos. 11-15, 18-24, 1963; vol. 3, nos. 1-3, 6,7,12-19, 1964; Vol. 5, nos. 18-22, 1966; Vol. 6, nos. 2-10, 12-20, 22-24, 1967; Vol. 7, nos. 4-11, 1968; Ku Klux Klan: 1, 1939-1972; Ku Klux Klan: 2, 1972, with copies of Fiery Cross, Vol. 7, No. 1, 3-12, 1972; Governor George Wallace, American Party: 1, 1972, with a copy of Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, 1972; Governor George Wallace, American Party: 2, 1972; Governor George Wallace, American Party: 3, 1972; Governor George Wallace, American Party: 4, 1972; Mass Meeting-J.P. Coleman, 1955; Cox & Minter-Holmes County: 1, 1955; Cox & Minter-Holmes County: 2, 1955-1957; and Mass Meeting-Minter & Cox, 1955-1986. Series 5. 1974 Addendum, contains files on Governor John Bell Williams, 1968-1972; School desegregation: 1, 1963-1973; School desegregation: 2, 1964-1973; Ku Klux Klan, 1961-1973, with copies of Fiery Cross, Vol. 7, No. 5, 6, 1972; Vol. 8, No. 1-6, 1973; Citizens' Council, 1972-1973; Governor George Wallace, 1972-1973; Greenwood, Mississippi: 1, 1960-1973, with clippings on De La Beckwith, race relations; and The Thunderbolt, No. 153-167, 972 September-1973 December. Series 6. 1975 Addendum, contains files on Governor George Wallace, The Thunderbolt, and Ku Klux Klan. Series 7. 1978 Addendum, contains files on Byron De La Beckwith, Ku Klux Klan, Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, The Thunderbolt, and George A. McNeely, "For God and Country: The True Story of the Ku Klux Klan." Series 8. 1996 Addendum, contains files on A Compilation of Public Records: 42% of the Unitarian Clergymen and 450 Rabbis (Circuit Riders, Inc., 1961); copies of The Thunderbolt, States' Rights Voters League Quarterly Report, The Monitor, and pro- and anti-Klan literature; Ross Barnett; a copy of a Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission report; Communism; race relations; and Senator James O. Eastland.