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

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[0083] American Civil Liberties Union Records: Subgroup 2, Organizational Matters Series, 1947-1995, MC001.02.01

Location: Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, 2001 Princeton University Library, One Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Description: The American Civil Liberties Union Records document the activities of the Union in protecting individual rights from 1920 through 1995. Subseries 1E.1: Departments: Executive Directors, 1950-1978, includes material from Roger Baldwin, Patrick Murphy Malin, John de J. Pemberton, Jr. and Ayreh Neier, including a file on Malin: Free Speech - Rockwell Case - American Nazi Party. Subseries 1E.2: Departments: Executive Director Aryeh Neier, 1970-1978, documents Neier's service as National Executive Director of the ACLU from 1970 to 1978. The administrative files contain numerous internal memoranda and correspondence concerning the ACLU's involvement in various legal and social issues, including Abortion, Philip Agee, Anti-ACLU, Robert Bork, James L. Buckley, William F. Buckley, Busing, Cointelpro, Desegregation, Frank Donner, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), gun control, Flag Desecration, John Heinz, III, Hyde Amendment, Jewish Defense League, Libertarian Party, Morality in Media, School Desegregation, Shockley Free Speech Case, Skokie Case (the ACLU's support of the right of Nazis to parade through the predominantly Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois), and Sterilization. Subseries 1E.3: Departments: Associate Director Alan Reitman, 1948-1986, contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, and statements which document Reitman's role in ACLU operations. Sub-subseries Subject Files, 1963-1989, contains files on Conservatives, Frank Donner, Ku Klux Klan, Moral Majority, and Nazi Party- Skokie, Illinois. Subseries 1E.4: Departments: Assistant Director Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, 1959-1962, documents her tenure as assistant director of the American Civil Liberties Union. The Church and State materials contain files on Bible Reading in Public Schools, Fairness Doctrine: Anti-Communist Programs, Regents' Prayer Case (Long Island, NY) [Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), prohibiting the use of a Regent's prescribed prayer in New York public schools], and Right-Wing Attacks. Subseries 1E.8: Departments: Legal, 1937-1980. Sub-subseries Subject File, 1937-1954, contains files on Group Libel, Gwinn Amendment Data, Ku Klux Klan, and Poll Tax Research Material. Sub-subseries Subject File, 1946-1960, bulk 1954-1960, contains a file on School Integration: John Kasper, 1957. Subseries 1E.9: Departments: Membership, 1951-1971, contains a file on Ezra Pound Fake Application, 1954. Subseries 1E.10: Departments: Public Information and Education Office, 1966-1988, bulk 1975-1987, primarily contains the records of Trudi Schutz, who served as Press Director (1974-1975) and Director of the Public Information and Education Office (1975-1987). Files on Abortion, Philip Agee, Walter and Frances Bergman: FBI providing information to Ku Klux Klan, Robert H. Bork: Confirmation Hearings, Creationism Bills, Desegregation of Schools, and Nazis-in-Skokie. Subseries 1I: Meetings and Celebrations, 1947-1995, bulk 1949-1989, contains files on Conference on Effect of Ultra-Right Organizations on Democratic Process (1962), Greenwich Conference (1962), and Right Wing Analysis; Research; Conference on a Preserving Democratic Press (1962) [i.e., the Conference on Preserving the Democratic Process, sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and held in Greenwich, Connecticut, January 25-27, 1962]. Subseries 1M: Attacks and Commendations, 1936-1982, bulk 1948-1970. Sub-subseries Attacks, 1936-1982, documents attacks leveled against the ACLU by the press, various institutions, and individuals. The majority of the attacks on the ACLU came from the American Legion. The attacks on the ACLU occurred primarily during the McCarthy years, and were concerned with a suspected relationship between the ACLU and Communism. Files on American Council of Christian Laymen, American Mercury: J.B. Matthews, American Legion, American Mercury article, 1936, 1938, Anti-Communist League of America, Christian Broadcasting Network, Christian Economics Article, Firing Line Statement, 1958, John T. Flynn, Individualist, McCarthy Attack, 1954, Mullins' Attack on ACLU (re: "Hood-Smith Act Case"), 1954, National Economic Council Letter: Merwin K. Hart, 1948, Senator McCarthy Attack on ACLU during "Voice of America", 1953, Senator McCarthy Attack on ADA and Roger Baldwin, 1952, Tenney Committee - California, The Wanderer Attacks on Roger Baldwin, 1952, and The Freeman.

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[0084] American Civil Liberties Union Records: Subgroup 1, The Roger Baldwin Years, 1917-1950, MC001.01

Location: Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, 2001 Princeton University Library, One Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Description: The American Civil Liberties Union Records, The Roger Baldwin years, document the activities of the ACLU from 1917 through 1950. Subseries 5 - General--Clippings, 1912, 1917-1946, 1949-1950, contains files on Open Shop Campaign, Ku Klux Klan, Lynchings/Mob Violence, Japanese-Americans, Patrioteering Organizations, Patrioteering Organizations: American Legion, and Patrioteering Organizations: Better America Federation. Subseries 6 - Legislation--Clippings, 1917-1923, 1926-1946, 1949-1950, contains files on Anti-Labor Legislation, Anti-Lynching Bill, and Geyer Anti-Poll-Tax Bill. Subseries 12 - Federal Legislation--Correspondence, 1919-1921, 1926-1950, contains files on Anti-Lynching Legislation, Anti-Japanese Bill, Anti-Poll Tax Legislation, Anti-Semitism, Dickstein Racial Hatred Bill, Dies Committee to Investigate Subversive Activities, Chinese Exclusion Act, Connally Resolution, Group Libel Legislation, Lynching Legislation, Race Hatred Bill, Race Hatred Legislation, Sterilization Laws, Taft-Hartley Act, and Women's Equal Rights Amendment. Subseries 13 - General--Correspondence, 1917-1924, 1926-1929, 1931-1950, contains files on American Legion, Communism, Fascism and Nazism, Lynchings, Poll Tax, and U.S. vs. Schwimmer. Subseries 15 - Labor and Liberal Organizations--Correspondence, 1921, 1931-1950, contains files on American Jewish League Against Communism and Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League. Subseries 17 - New York City Committee--Correspondence, 1936-1950, contains files on Anti-Semitic Speaker Arrests, Father Coughlin Activities, Christian Front Meetings, Fritz Kuhn Case, and Social Justice Parade. Subseries 18 - Organizational Matters--Correspondence, 1917-1950, contains a file on Ku Klux Klan. The Index Headings for the ACLU Card Index (1917-1946) (Names) include Harry Elmer Barnes, Charles A. Beard, William E. Borah, Frank Buchman, Louis F. Budenz, Nicholas Murray Butler, John Roy Carlson, John Chamberlain, George W. Christians, Grenville Clark, Upton Close, Charles E. Coughlin, Bronson Cutting, Virginius Dabney, George Deatherage, Cecil DeMille, Prescott Dennett, Lawrence Dennis, Arthur Derounian, Samuel Dickstein, Martin Dies, Elizabeth Dilling, John Dos Passos, Ralph Easley, Max Eastman, Robert Edmondson, Milton S. Eisenhower, Hamilton Fish, Irving Fisher, Henry Ford, Amos Fries, Frank E. Gannett, Benjamin Gitlow, Merwin K. Hart, William Randolph Hearst, Granville Hicks, Adolf Hitler, Hamilton Holt, Sidney Hook, J. Edgar Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Hiram Johnson, Harry A. Jung, Joseph P. Kamp, Vivien Kellems, Tyler Kent, Rudyard Kipling, Fritz Kuhn, David Lawrence, Charles A. Lindbergh, Huey Long, Jay Lovestone, Clare Boothe Luce, Douglas MacArthur, Fred R. Marvin, Joseph McWilliams, H.L. Mencken, Robert A. Millikan, Raymond Moley, George Van Horn Moseley, Oswald Mosley, Benito Mussolini, Gerald P. Nye, William Dudley Pelley, S.B. Pettengill, Amos Pinchot, Paul Popenoe, Ezra Pound, Carlos P. Romulo, John Stewart Service, Gerald K. Smith, John B. Snow, Vilhjálmur Stefánsson, Eugene Talmadge, Dorothy Thompson, George H. Tinkham, John B. Trevor, Harold Lord Varney, George S. Viereck, Anastase Vonsiatsky, Burton K. Wheeler, William Allen White, Wendell L. Willkie, and Gerald B. Winrod. The Index Headings for Card Index (Subjects) include Abortion; All Russian Fascist Party; Allied Patriotic Societies, Inc.; Amerasia; America First Committee; America, Incorporated; America First Party; American Coalition of Patriotic Societies; American Social Credit Movement; American Protective League; American Mercury (ACLU Libel Case); American National Action Party; American Alliance; American Patriots, Inc.; American Friends of German Freedom; American Coalition; American Freedoms Foundation; American Forward Movement (Reverend Ralph E. Nollner of Houston, Texas, organizer; publisher of the Christian American); American Coalition Society; American Constitutional Association; American Liberty League; American Legion; American Flag Movement; American Birth Control League; American Vigilant Intelligence Federation; American Council of Christian Churches; American Constitutionalists; Anti-Evolution; Anti-Semitism; Anti-Evolution (Mississippi); Anti-Vaccination; Anti-Ism League of America; Better America Federation; Black Legion; Blacklist of Liberals; Caucasian Crusade; Chinese Exclusion Act; Christian Front; Christian American Crusade; Christian Mobilizers; Church League for Industrial Democracy; Citizens National League; Citizens Patriotic League; Citizens National Committee; Civil Rights; Committee of One Million; Committee for the Nation; Communists; Concentration Camps (Aliens); Conservatives; Constitution of American Coalition; Constitutional Educational League; Constitutional Protective League Of America; Coughlinites; Council of National Defense; Cox Committee; Crusader White Shirts; Crusaders; Daughters of the American Revolution; Defenders of Democracy; Defenders of America; Denaturalization; Dies Committee; Dirksen Bill; Discrimination/Segregation; Dumbarton Oaks Proposals; Equal Rights Amendment; Fascism/Fascists; German-American Bund; Guards of Washington; Hearst, William R; Highlander Folk School (Tennessee); Hobbs Bill (Concentration Camps); Hobbs Bill (Anti-racketeering); Hobbs Bill (Subversive Activities); House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC); Immigration Restriction League; Industrial Defense League; Industrial Espionage; Industrial Defense Association; James True Associates; Knights of Liberty; Ku Klux Klan; Labor/Anti-Labor; League for Democratic Control; League for Industrial Democracy; League for Constitutional Government; Lend-Lease Bill; Liberty League; Liberty Defense Union; Louisiana League for the Preservation of Constitutional Rights; Loyal Americans; Loyalty Oaths; Lusk Committee; Lynching; Militant Christian Association; Military Intelligence Association; Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; Military Order of the World War; National Security League; National Sentinels; National Constitution Committee; National Civic Federation; National Republic; National Clay Products Industries Association; National Labor Relations Act; National Labor Relations Board; National Anti-Vaccination League (England); Nazis; New Vigilantes; New York State Economic Council; Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League; Open Shop; Order of '76; Order of Black Shirts; Order Of Independent Americans; Oregon Commonwealth Federation; Oriental Exclusion Act; Patriot Guard of America; Patrioteering Organizations (General); Patriotic League; Patriotic Laymen's Education Association; Patriotic Order of Sons of America; Patriotic Citizenship Association; Paul Reveres; Pennsylvania Security League; People v. Benjamin Gitlow [Briefs]; Poll Tax; Private Armies; Protocols of Zion; Race Relations; Race Hatred Legislation; Racism; Rapp-Coudert Committee Investigation; Royalist League (Texas); Security League; Sedition; Segregation; Sentinels of the Republic; Silver Shirts; Single Tax (California); Smith Committee Investigation (NLRA); Social Justice; Spider Web Chart; Sterilization; Storm Troop Bill (Sheppard); Subversive Activities; U. S. Patriotic Society; U. S. Flag Association; Un-American Activities (California); Vigilantes; White Supremacy Resolution; White Man's Union Association (Texas); White Shirts; and Woman Patriot.