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

Finding aid:

http://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/taxonomy/term/7059

[0066] American Citizens Concerned for Life, Inc., Records, 1968-1986 (bulk 1974-1982)

Location: Gerald R. Ford Library, 1000 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2114

Description: American Citizens Concerned for Life, Inc. (ACCL) was a national pro-life organization formed after the 1973 United States Supreme Court cases of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, both of which upheld a woman's right to an abortion. In addition, papers regarding the National Right to Life Committee and the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life are housed within the collection. The series American Citizens Concerned for Life Administrative File, 1973-1986, contains Marjory Mecklenburg correspondence and files on Gerald R. Ford, Nellie Gray, Timothy LaHaye, Clare Boothe Luce, Dr. Fred Mecklenburg, Marjory Mecklenburg, Bernard N. Nathanson, and Mary Senander.

Websites with information:

http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/guidecollectionsa-m.asp

http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/fordguide.pdf

Finding aids:

http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/americancitizens.asp

https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/americancitizens.asp

http://archive.today/RBjXh

[0067] Records of American Civil Liberties Union, 1917-date, CDG-A

Location: Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399

Description: The ACLU grew out of the American Union Against Militarism, which was founded in 1916 and dissolved in 1922. A subsection of the AUAM was called the National Civil Liberties Bureau; in 1920 it changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. Roger Baldwin was its director for 30 years (1920-1950), followed by Patrick Murphy Malin. Contains correspondence re: "Professional Patriots," 1927-1928.

Finding aid:

http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/CDGA.A-L/aclu.htm

[0068] American Civil Liberties Union. Cincinnati Chapter. Records, 1961-1971, 1976-1983, 1968-1986, Accession Nos.: US-74-1, US-75-16, US-86-20, US-89-3

Location: Archives and Rare Books Library of the University of Cincinnati Libraries, 8th Floor Blegen Library, P.O. Box 210113, 2602 McMicken Circle, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0113

Description: Records, including minutes, financial information, articles, newsletters, office files, organizational material and publications. Files on Abortion; Church / State; Desegregation; Hand Gun Control; KKK; Nazi Party; Pornography; School Desegregation; Skokie Case; Right to Life Mailing; New Far Right News Clips; Nazis; Terrorism; Scientific Creationism Decision-Arkansas US District Court; HUAC-Operation Abolition 1960-1961; Censorship-Citizens for Decent Literature; Civil Rights-Becker Amendment (Church and State); Labor - Miscellaneous (re: Right to Work Laws), 1965; Church-State Separation, 1967 - Abortion, 1966-1968; and Church-State Separation - School Busing, 1967.

References:

Whitney Strub, "Perversion for Profit: Citizens for Decent Literature and the Arousal of an Antiporn Public in the 1960s," Journal of the History of Sexuality, Volume 15, Number 2 (May 2006), pp. 258-291, https://stru

blog.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/15-2strub.pdf; Whitney Strub, Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right (New York, Columbia University Press, 2013).

Websites with information:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131511053800/http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/archives/collections/urban_coll.html

http://www.libraries.uc.edu/arb/collections/urban-studies/us-collections.html

Finding aids:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100615044357/http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/arb/archives/inventories/aclu.pdf

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/OhCiUAR0171

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/OhCiUAR0172

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/OhCiUAR0173

http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OhCiUAR0171.xml&query=&brand=default

http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OhCiUAR0172.xml&query=&brand=default

http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OhCiUAR0173.xml&query=&brand=default

[0069] American Civil Liberties Union. Illinois Division. Records, 1920-1982

Location: Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637-1504

Description: Documents the activities of the Illinois Division of the American Civil Liberties Union from its founding through the early 1980s. Includes case files, finances and fundraising information, individual and institutional correspondence, minutes, newsletters and publications, film, audio cassettes, and photographs. Contains files on Academic Freedom: Revilo Oliver, American Legion, American Security Council, Anti-Semitism, Attorney General's list, Joseph Beauharnais, Broyles Commission, Broadcasting blacklists (including Red Channels), Censorship, Frank Collin, Communism in the Public Schools, Communist Party and front groups, Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose), Deportation, fluoridation, Ford Foundation, Fund for the Republic, Gwinn Amendment, Alger Hiss, Letters to J. Edgar Hoover, House Un-American Activities Committee, Immigration, Internal Security Act of 1950, Jenner-Butler bill, John Birch Society, Ku Klux Klan, Loyalty, Loyalty Oath, Senator Joseph McCarthy, National Socialist White People's Party, Nazi Party, Obscenity, Operation Abolition, People of the State of Illinois v Frank Collin, Red Squad, right wing organizations, George Lincoln Rockwell, SACB, Skokie v. Nazi Party of America, Smith Act, and Gen. Edwin Walker.

Websites with information:

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc/finding-aids/

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/browse.php?alpha=A

http://bmrcsurvey.uchicago.edu/collections/1487-1

http://explore.chicagocollections.org/ead/uchicago/68/pk07v9p/

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc/finding-aids/?topic=Politics%2C%20Public%20Policy%20and%20Political

%20Reform&view=topics

Finding aids:

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.ACLUIL

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/rlg/ICU.SPCL.ACLUIL.pdf

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/rlg/ICU.SPCL.ACLUIL.pdf

[0070] American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri Records, 1953-2008, WUA/

06/wua00355

Location: University Archives, Washington University in St. Louis, West Campus, 7425 Forsyth Blvd, St Louis, MO 63105

Description: This collection contains the records of the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri. Items in the collection include office files, promotional materials, memos, reports, financial documents, articles, conference materials, and other materials. Series 1: St. Louis Civil Liberties Committee, 1935-1967. Sub-Series 1: Office Files, 1953-1959, contains the statement of the ACLU on "Civil Aspects of the Lee Harvey Oswald Case.... December 1963." Sub-Series 2: Office Files and Cases, 1947-1957, contains a copy of "The Informer," by Frank Donner, The Nation, April 10, 1954; material on the Gwinn Amendment to the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, a law passed in 1952 requiring of persons living in federally-assisted housing a loyalty oath to the effect that they were not members of any organization on the Attorney General's "subversive list"; copies of bills on: lynching and poll tax; and Lattimore the Scholar, edited by Gerry Boas and Harvey Wheeler (1953), containing articles by other scholars attesting to Professor Lattimore's reputation; a copy of "People vs Property: Race Restrictive Covenants in Housing," by Herman H. Long and Charles S. Johnson, 1947 [online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015020076074]. Sub-Series 3: General Files of the Chairman, 1960-1961 (circa), and 1963-1965, contains "Communism on the Map" - complete text of the tape-film strip; and "The Greater St. Louis School of Anti-Communism, April 1961, Selected Quotations" prepared by the St. Louis Civil Liberties Committee (STLCLC), St. Louis, 1962. Series 2: ACLU of Eastern Missouri Files, 1953-1981. Sub-Series 1: Office Files, 1953-1980, contains a file on Ultra Right Organizations 1962-1967; a filmstrip guide to "Communism on the Map"; "The Christian Anti-Communism Crusade," prepared by STLCLC (April 1962); and a file on interracial marriage and miscegenation. Sub-Series 4: News clippings, 1967-1985, contains files on desegregation; Equal Rights Amendment; Church/State Aid to Parochial Schools - The School Bus Question; and School Desegregation U.S. Cities. Series 3: ACLU of Eastern Missouri Files, 1940-1991, contains files on Robert Bork-ACLU Opposition to Supreme Court Nomination; School Desegregation/ Busing; National Socialist White Peoples Party - Dennis Nix; National Socialist White Peoples Party v. Breckenridge Hills; Nix v. Breckenridge Hills - National Socialist White Peoples Party; and Nazis. Series 4: ACLU of Eastern Missouri Files, 1959-1995. Sub-Series 1: Administrative & Subject Files, has files on abortion, civil rights, and Ronald Reagan. Series 5: ACLU of Eastern Missouri Files, 1960-2003, has files on the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Series 8: American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri Files, 1994-2012, contains files on Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan v. City of Cape Girardeau.