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

Finding aids:

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/ucla/clucs/csrcdc.pdf

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8r29r2nk/entire_text/

[0782] John Hensley DeTar Papers, 1956-73, Coll. 113

Location: Nevada Historical Society, 1650 North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada 89503

Description: Dr. John H. (Jake) Detar (1925-2011), a Reno physician, was organizer and director of the John Birch Society in Nevada in the early 1960s. He was also associated with the American Independent Party, American Friends of Katanga, and the National States Rights Party. In 1964 he proposed a congressional investigation of Communist influence in folk singing. An opponent of the ecumenical council Vatican II and of the abandonment of the Latin mass by the Catholic Church, DeTar formed a publishing company, Athanasius Press, to publish his book To Deceive the Elect, written with Thomas Manion. The papers consist of letters, reports, literary manuscripts, miscellaneous documents, and considerable printed matter (many Birch Society publications), relating to anti-Communist, right-wing political groups and activities, mostly in Nevada. Includes correspondence with many Nevada political leaders and politically conservative periodicals.

References:

"What's Going On. The John H. Detar Collection," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, XVII.1 (Spring 1974), p. 30, http://nsla.nevadaculture.org/statepubs/epubs/210777-1974-1Spring.pdf; A Guide to the Manuscript Collections at the Nevada Historical Society (1975), http://quest.grainger.uiuc.edu/Russian­Manuscripts/Guide/Collection/350; Dennis Myers, "John DeTar 1925-2011," Dec. 8, 2011, http://www.­newsreview.com/reno/news

view/blogs?date=2011-12-01 and http://www.newsreview.com/­reno/newsview/­blogs/post?oid=4591891; John DeTar (1925-2011), http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/rgj/obituary.aspx?­n=john-detar&pid=154745276.

Websites with information:

http://www.museums.nevadaculture.org/resources/1/Nevada%20Historical%20Society_mastermslist.pdf

[0783] Detroit Commission on Community Relations Records, 1940-1984, Accession #267

Location: Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, 5401 Cass Ave., Detroit, MI 48202

Description: The City of Detroit Commission on Community Relations evolved from the City of Detroit Mayor's Interracial Committee. The Interracial Committee was instituted by Mayor Edward Jeffries late in 1943 as a response to the Detroit race riot of June 1943. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, minutes, membership information, newspaper clippings, speeches, press releases, publications and case files documenting its efforts to overcome racial discrimination and improve race relations in the Detroit metropolitan area. Files on America Plus, Inc., America First Party, American Conservative Union, American Independence Party, anti-lynching organization meetings, anti-Semitism, anti-Semitic incidents in Detroit, Christian Patriots of Michigan, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, desegregation, Detroit Committee on Truth About Civil Turmoil, hate groups, integration, John Birch Society, Ku Klux Klan, Let Freedom Ring, Liberty Lobby, Life Line, Michigan White Citizens Council, Minutemen, Nazi Party, Patriotic Party, race prejudice, racism, racist literature, radical right, school desegregation, Statecraft, States' Rights Council, and Young Americans for Freedom.

Websites with information:

http://reuther.wayne.edu/guides.html

Finding aids:

http://reuther.wayne.edu/files/UR000267.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20100818015243/http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/files/UR000267.pdf

[0784] Detroit Feminist Women's Health Center Collection, 1961-1980, Accession # 1063

Location: Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, 5401 Cass Ave., Detroit, MI 48202

Description: The Detroit Feminist Women's Health Center emerged in the wake of Roe v. Wade, along with other centers in California, Utah, Iowa, Massachusetts and Florida, as part of the national women's health movement. The Center provided gynecological services, pregnancy screening, nutritional counseling, prenatal care, and abortion and birth control services to women in a community-based, self-help atmosphere. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, conference materials, and publications documenting women's health issues and the activities of various feminist organizations. Files on abortion, anti-Communism, birth control, homosexuality, population control, racism, right-wing viewpoints, sterilization, and violence to women.

Websites with information:

http://reuther.wayne.edu/node/2448

Finding aid:

https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/UR001063.pdf

[0785] Detroit News Lansing Bureau scrapbooks, 1931-1972, 851119 Bb.1 2

Location: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, 1150 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113

Description: Newspaper clippings detailing all aspects of Michigan state government, including gubernatorial administrations between 1947 and 1969; also; miscellaneous reference files, including political and governmental press releases.

Websites with information:

http://bentley.umich.edu/EAD/ead_cd.htm

Finding aids:

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-851119?rgn=main;view=text

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead&idno=umich-bhl-851119

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead;id=navbarbrowselink;cginame=findaid-idx;cc=bh

lead;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=umich-bhl-851119

[0785a] Detroit Red Squad Collection, 1939-1974

Location: Special Collections Library, Labadie Collection, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library (South), 913 S. University Avenue, Office/Gallery 7th Floor; Reading Room 8th Floor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190

Description: From the 1940s to 1974, the Detroit Red Squad was a group within the Detroit Police Department that monitored and collected information on suspected communist and socialist individuals and organizations within the greater Southeast Michigan area. The collection contains items from files on Michigan-area communist parties and perceived-leftist organizations, including over 100 files on the Michigan Communist Party.

Websites with information:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/labadie-collection/archives-and-manuscripts-f

[0786] Hermann B. Deutsch Collection, ca. 1920-1945 (bulk 1930-1940), Mss 8

Location: Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Dr, New Orleans, LA 70122

Description: Hermann Bacher Deutsch (1889-1970) was employed by the Times-Picayune (1916), the States (1918), and the Item and its successor, the States-Item (1918-1970), serving between 1949 and 1970 as associate editor, chief editorial writer, and daily columnist. Papers and memorabilia, mainly on Louisiana politics, produced and/or accumulated by Deutsch while working as a reporter for the New Orleans Item. Includes much material on Huey P. Long. Series I. Books and Pamphlets, contains Why?? Huey P. Long Was Murdered; The True Story Told; Gruesome Facts Detailed; The "Inside" Story; Exposé of Senator Long's Tragic Assassination Gathered and Welded Together, by Denis Flynn (New Orleans, [19--]); Address to the Legislature Convening May 9, 1932: The Strange Case of Louisiana and Huey P. Long, by Harry Gamble ([New Orleans, 1932]); Share Our Wealth, Every Man A King ... Containing authorities, laws, statistics and published comments of Leaders of all times, by Huey P. Long (Washington, D.C., [19--]); Long's Pratt ([New Orleans, 1935]); and Huey P. Long, by George H. Maines ([S.l.: s.n., 19--]). Series VII. Miscellany, contains Huey P. Long, "Share Our Wealth Plan" (2-page typescript, n.d.).

Websites with information:

http://library.uno.edu/specialcollections/lacol_findingaids.cfm