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

http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/commentary/315/entry

Finding aids:

http://www.sterilizationvictims.nc.gov/documents/DCR_Presentation_Handout_A_%20Finding_Aid.pdf

http://www.webcitation.org/66tc2DDHL

[0779] General Records of the Department of Justice [DOJ], Record Group 60, 1790-1989, 1991

Location: National Archives, 8601 Adelphi Rd, College Park, MD 20740

Description: Subgroup 60.3. General Records of the Department of Justice, 1849-1989 (bulk 1870-1981). Sub-subgroup 60.3.4. Central files and related records, contains Straight numerical files, 1904-74, including File Number 158260, which identifies names of individuals and organizations that requested the United States government to support a federal anti-lynching bill in the United States Congress; and Classified Subject Files, 1930-1987, Case File: 144-19-233, which includes correspondence relating to an anonymous letter to A. T. Walden, a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) attorney in Atlanta. The case relates to Brown (1954), involving a white citizen conspiring to murder black citizens if they tried to attend white schools. The file also includes correspondence relating to Tom Linder, candidate for governor of Georgia in 1954, and his speech to preserve segregation in public schools.

References:

Federal records pertaining to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954), comp. by Walter B. Hill, Jr. and Trichita M. Chestnut, (Reference Information Papers 112, 2004) (National Archives and Records Administration, 2004); Lynching and Race Riots Finding Aid [Record Group 60, General Records of the Department of Justice, Straight Numerical, 1904-1937, File Number 158260 (National Archives at College Park, MD, Textual Research Consultation Room).

Websites with information:

http://www.archives.gov/publications/ref-info-papers/112-brown-board-educ/exec-records.html

http://blogs.archives.gov/blackhistoryblog/2013/03/01/other-finding-aids-relating-to-african-american-history-post-the-black-history-guide-to-civilian-records-in-the-national-archives-and-records-administration/

Finding aid:

http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/060.html

[0779a] Records of the Department of National Health and Welfare, RG 29

Location: Social and Cultural Archives, Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0N4, Canada

Description: The Department of National Health and Welfare kept documents relating to the health aspects of abortion. The records contain a copy of A.F. Guttmacher, "Historical Developments of Contraception." Paper presented to the Fourth Conference of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, 1964. Files on family planning, abortion, birth control, abortion law, Alliance for Life, abortion legislation, Right to Life Society, Dr. Henry Morgentaler, and Catholic Women's League of Canada.

Websites with information:

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/politics-government/Pages/thematic-guides-abortion.aspx

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/le-public/005-1142.02-e.html

[0780] Department of Records Photo Gallery [digital photograph collection]

Location: New York City Department of Records and Information Services, 31 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10007

Description: The NYC Municipal Archives Online Gallery contains over 900,000 items digitized from the Municipal Archives' collections, including photographs, maps, motion-pictures, and audio recordings. Includes photographs of political groups monitored by the New York City Police Department's "Alien Squad." These photographs range from Communist Party rallies in Madison Square Garden to an America First Committee rally at Madison Square Garden, May 23, 1941; a meeting of Christian Mobilizers at Innesfield Park, September 20, 1939; and Camp Siegfried, Yaphank, Long Island, and various representatives of the German American Bund at the camp, May 22, 1938. Also includes photographs of General Douglas MacArthur.

Finding aids:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/gallery/home.shtml

http://www.nyc.gov/cgi-bin/exit.pl?url=http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/view/group/2965

[0780a] General Records of the Department of State, 1763-2002, Record Group 59

Location: National Archives at College Park, MD, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001

Description: The series Voice of America (VOA) Historical Files, 1946-1953 (National Archives Identifier 5635478), consists of airgrams, charts, correspondence, despatches, magazines, magazine excerpts, maps, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, pamphlets, photographs, posters, questionnaires, reports, scripts, speeches, telegrams, and transcripts related to the post-World War II continuation of the Voice of America (VOA) radio programming. The series contains files on specific VOA radio programs; jamming of VOA broadcasts; radio equipment distribution; transmitters and broadcasting facilities; publicity and audience building; relations with news agencies; evidence of program effectiveness; the U.S. Advisory Committee on Information; Radio Free Europe; newspaper and magazine articles about the VOA; government officials' speeches about the VOA; and the Katyń Massacre. The folders of material concerning the Katyń Massacre are titled "Katyń Forest Massacres I," "Katyń Forest Massacres II," and "Katyń Forest Massacres III."

Reference:

Selected Records Relating to the Katyń Forest Massacre at the National Archives and Records Administration, http://www.archives.gov/research/foreign-policy/Katyń-massacre/selected-records.pdf.

Catalogue description:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5635478

[0781] Robert DePugh Interview, 1966, Audio 1409A [sound recording]

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

Description: Interview by William Turner with Robert DePugh (1923-2009) of the Minutemen organization at Norborne, Missouri. Turner is author of a book on right wing organizations entitled Power on the Right.

Websites with information:

http://arcat.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=2996

http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu:8888/xtf/view?docId=99166-w6127b4d.xml

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/173699486

http://www.worldcat.org/title/interview-1966/oclc/173699486

[0781a] Avedis Derounian papers

Location: Edward and Helen Mardigian Reference and Research Library, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, Inc., 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA 02478

Description: Avedis Derounian, aka John Roy Carlson (1909-1991), was the antifascist author of the best-sellers Under Cover (1943) and The Plotters (1946). The papers contain files on more than 100 organizations and individuals, including the American Legion and the German American Bund.

Reference:

Christopher Vials, "UConn Scholar on Importance of Derounian Archive at NAASR," NAASR Newsletter (National Association for Armenian Studies and Research) (Fall/Winter/Spring 2011-2012), p. 9, https://cdn.shopi

fy.com/s/files/1/0860/2240/files/2011-2012_Fall-Winter-Spring.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://www.naasr.org/pages/mardigian-library

[0781b] The Desegregation Collection, 1976-1983, Coll. 56

Location: Chicano Studies Research Center Library, 144 Haines Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951544, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1544

Description: These files consist of personal notes, index cards, articles, and newspaper clippings. Files on Citizens' Advisory Committee on Student Integration; Crawford vs. Board of Education, City of Los Angeles; "Proposed Position and Policy Statement to the Chicano Subcommittee of the Citizens' Advisory Committee on Student Integration"; Bustop, a Corporation, Petitioner vs. Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, Respondent; and Jeanne Thiel Landis, "The Crawford Desegregation Suit in Los Angeles 1977-1981: The Multiethnic Community Versus BUSTOP" (Ph.D., UCLA, 1984).