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

http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSSP146.xml

[0771] Democratic Party (Ala.) State Executive Committee records 1875-1986 (bulk 1919-1951, 1959-1963), LPR99

Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, Ala. 36130

Description: The State Democratic Executive Committee, established in the 1800s, provides the infrastructure for the Democratic Party in Alabama. The State Democratic Executive Committee records, 1875-1986, document over a century of virtual single party politics in Alabama. The primary correspondents include committee officers and various state, local and national committee members and political figures. The records, primarily the correspondence, minutes and printed materials, provide information on many topics such as Anti-Smith Democrats, Hoovercrats, white supremacy, state's rights, poll tax, segregation, Ku Klux Klan, Communism, and civil rights. Subgroup XXI: E. W. Pettus Administration (1931-1935). Series: A: Administrative Files, contains Jouett Shouse correspondence with E. W. Pettus, 1931-1932.

Websites with information:

http://adahcat.archives.alabama.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=9353

http://adahcat.alabama.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=1411&recCount=10&recPointer=1&bibId=9353

http://www.kcarchivists.org/kcaa/files/4413/1654/7072/Vol15No3-1996.pdf

Finding aid:

http://www.archives.state.al.us/findaids/v9353.pdf

[0772] Democratic Study Group Records, 1912-1995 (bulk 1960-1990), MSS57125

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

Description: In 1959, a group of liberal Democratic members of the House of Representatives organized the Democratic Study Group (DSG) to counterbalance a conservative Republican-Dixiecrat coalition. The DSG was a legislative service organization operating from 1959 to 1995 to assist Democratic members of the United States House of Representatives by providing a constant flow of information to its members in publications. Records include research publications, reports, position papers, draft legislation, correspondence, legal documents, government records, voting and whip records, hearing statements, committee and caucus records, surveys, media files, campaign records, photographs, and training material provided to members in support of common political and legislative goals. Also includes financial and administrative records of the organization. Part I: Subject File, 1940-1975, contains files on Group Research, Inc., 1964-1968; National Committee for an Effective Congress, 1957-1966; Right-wing related material, 1957, 1965-1966; School prayer decision [Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), prohibiting the use of a Regent's prescribed prayer in New York public schools], 1963-1964; and Taft-Hartley Act, repeal of section 14(b) [right to work: Nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing the execution or application of agreements requiring membership in a labor organization in any State or Territory in which such execution or application is prohibited by State or Territorial law], 1952, 1965. Part II: Subject File, 1912-1995, contains files on Coalition of southern Democrats and conservative Republicans, 1950-1965; Democratic Party - Discipline - John R. Rarick, 1967-1969 [for supporting George Wallace]; Albert W. Watson and John Bell Williams, 1964-1967 [for supporting Goldwater]; National Committee for an Effective Congress, 1964-1968, 1978; Nicaragua and contra aid, 1986-1988; and Republican Party - Right-wing groups, contributions to, 1965-1967.

Websites with information:

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

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

Finding aids:

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011050

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011050.3

http://memory.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/uploaded_pdf/ead_pdf_batch_16_may_2011/ms0

11050.pdf

[0772a] Democrats-for-Willkie Papers, July-November 1940

Location: Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation, Rush Rhees Library, Second Floor, Room 225, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0055

Description: Democrats-For-Willkie was a splinter group of the Democratic Party which was organized to back Wendell L. Willkie in his campaign for the presidency in 1940. The group was opposed to the re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt for a third term, believing that a third term went against American tradition, and feeling that a third and fourth term could eventually lead to dictatorship. In July of 1940 Lewis W. Douglas, John W. Hanes, Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson and Alan Valentine organized the National Committee of Democrats-For-Willkie. Alan Valentine was chosen the Executive Director with headquarters in New York City. The Democrats-For-Willkie functioned at the state level through the appointment of State Advisory Chairmen as well as through direct communication with local Democratic organizations which sympathized with Willkie. The National Committee was dissolved after Willkie's defeat on November 5, 1940. The Subject File contains files on Bulletins, miscellaneous propaganda; "No Third Term" Mats; Releases; Associated Willkie Clubs of America; Releases; Republican State Committee; Republican National Committee; Republican State Central Committees; Wendell L. Willkie; No Third Term Day; and No Third Term Day Committee.

Websites with information:

http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/mssalpha

Finding aid:

http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/1196

[0773] Records of the Demokratisk allians, 1970-1976, SE/O258G/GSAF_5362

Location: Region- och Stadsarkivet Göteborg med Folkrörelsernas Arkiv [Regional and City Archives Gothenburg with the popular movements archive], Otterhällegatan 5, 411 18 Göteborg, Sweden

Description: Demokratisk allians [Democratic Alliance] was a extreme right-wing youth organization founded in 1967 in Stockholm, with branches later established in Göteborg (1970), Malmö, and other locations. It defined itself as opposed to all totalitarian movements, including both Communism and Nazism. Nominally politically autonomous, Demokratisk allians seems to have connections to Moderata ungdomsförbundet [the Moderate Youth League]. The records contain extensive series of press clippings.

Websites with information:

http://sok.riksarkivet.se/?postid=Arkis+EDE97631-22C4-4BD7-9DC8-147D16A0CE97&s=TARKIS08_Siv

[0774] Ján Dend'úr Papers, 1890-1987 (bulk 1920-1987), Collection 3032

Location: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Description: Ján Dend'úr (1898-1988) was a Slovak-American journalist, writer, editor, publisher, and teacher. The collection consists of papers relating to all aspects of Ján Dend'úr's career and interests, as well as family materials. The papers are rich in press clipping scrapbooks and notebooks of transcripts from the press, which comprise almost two-thirds of the collection. Additionally, the collection includes correspondence; Ján Denïúr's writings and speeches; miscellaneous printing business samples; materials of cultural, fraternal, beneficial, political, religious organizations; and press releases from information agencies. Series 1. Correspondence, Writings, and Ephemera. a. Correspondence, contains files on Jozef Lettrich and Štefan Osuský. Series 2. Slovak-American Press Clippings and Notebooks. a. Individuals, contains files on Štefan Osuský and Jozef Tiso.

Websites with information:

https://hsp.org/collections/catalogs-research-tools/finding-aids

Finding aid:

https://hsp.org/sites/default/files/mss/finding_aid_3032_dendur.pdf

[0775] Lawrence Dennis Papers, 1921-1975, Coll. 84036

Location: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010