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

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[0108] American Jewish Committee Records, Domestic and Geographic Files, 1921, 1941-1962, 1995, RG 247.17.13

Location: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

Description: The American Jewish Committee (AJC) was founded in New York in 1906 to defend Jewish civil and religious rights throughout the world. The records consist of briefs, conference proceedings, correspondence, legal documents, memoranda, minutes of meetings, printed materials, reports, resolutions, statements, studies, and surveys. Series I: American Jewish Committee Records, Domestic and Geographic Files, 1921, 1941-1962, 1995. [Subseries]. Alabama, contains files on Integration, John Crommelin, Hate groups, and Anti-Semitism. [Subseries]. Arkansas, contains files on Little Rock and Integration. [Subseries]. California, contains files on Hate Groups and America Plus Inc. [Subseries]. Florida, contains files on Communism, Hate groups, Hate violence, and Integration. [Subseries]. Georgia, contains files on Hate and violence, Hate groups, and Integration. [Subseries]. Illinois, contains files on Beauharnais vs. Illinois, Hate and violence, and Hate groups. [Subseries]. Mississippi, contains files on Hate groups, The Petal Paper, Race, and the White Citizens Council. [Subseries]. New York, contains files on Hate groups, The Gaelic American, and The Tablet. [Subseries]. Tennessee, contains files on Hate and violence, Highlander Folk School, and Integration. [Subseries]. Texas, contains files on Extremist groups and Integration.

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http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=2062158

[0109] American Jewish Committee Records, Subject Files, 1930-1973 (bulk 1941-1961), RG 347.17.10

Location: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

Description: The American Jewish Committee (AJC) was founded in New York in 1906 to defend Jewish civil and religious rights throughout the world. The collection documents American Jewish Committee's efforts to combat all forms of discrimination against the Jews in the United States. Additionally, there are materials pertaining to AJC's work regarding other minority groups in the United States. The American Jewish Committee Records, Subject Files consists of materials created by executive offices, departments, local offices and chapters of the Committee concerning a variety of matters; foremost Jewish civil and religious rights, immigration, and the Holocaust. The records consist of briefs, cartoons, conference procedures, correspondence, discussion guides, interviews, legal documents, manuscripts, memoranda, minutes of meetings, opinion polls, printed materials, questionnaires, reports, resolutions, scrapbooks, speeches, statements, studies, surveys, and television and radio scripts. Subject files on Anti-Semitism, including Anti-Semites, Anti-Semitic groups, Hate literature, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and Swastika Epidemic; Extremism, including Radical Right; Genocide Convention; Group Libel Legislation, including Hate mail literature sent though the postal service; Hate and Violence, including Bombings, Terminiello case, Ku Klux Klan, Mothers, White Citizens, Anti-Lynching Legislation, Merchants (Austin Hancock, American Heritage Protective Society; Merwin K. Hart; Joseph Kamp; Conde McGinley; Gerald L.K. Smith), and Quarantine; Immigration, including McCarran-Walter Act; and Integration, including Hate and violence, Hate groups.

Websites with information:

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http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1863758

[0110] AJC Subject Files (Gen-10), 1930-1962, RG 347.17.10 [digital collection]

Location: American Jewish Committee Information Center and Digital Archives, 165 East 56th Street, New York, NY 10022

Description: This series consists of alphabetical subject files. Main subjects include: anti-Semitism, bigotry and prejudice, church-state, civil liberties and rights, immigration, intergroup relations, race relations, restitution, and Zionism. The physical files are housed at the YIVO Archives. The subject file Anti-Semitism includes folders on Anti-Semitic groups 1934-1960, Hate literature articles and editorials 1933-1962, [Protocols of the] Elders of Zion, The New Nazis in Western Europe and Latin America (pamphlet, 1960-1962), Swastika Epidemic, and Neo-Nazi Youth Groups. The subject file Extremism contains a folder on the Conference on Preserving the Democratic Process, sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and held in Greenwich, Connecticut, January 25-27, 1962. The subject file Hate and Violence includes folders on Bombings, Terminiello case, Ku Klux Klan, Mothers groups, White Citizens, Anti-Lynching, Austin F. Hancock (American Heritage Protective Society), Merwin K. Hart, Joseph Kamp, Conde McGinley, and Gerald L.K. Smith. The booklet Anti-Semitic Activity in the United States: A Report and Appraisal (New York, American Jewish Committee, 1954) mentions American Heritage Protective Committee (San Antonio, Texas), George W. Armstrong, John Owen Beaty, Joseph Beauharnais, Frank L. Britton, Catherine V. Brown, Max A. X. Clark, Constitution Party, Edward A. Fleckenstein, Millard J. Flenner, Stephen Goodyear, John Hamilton, Merwin K. Hart, Jessie Welch Jenkins, Dan Kurtz, Andrew B. McAllister, W. Henry MacFarland, Jr., Conde McGinley, Kurt Mertig, George Van Horn Moseley, Eustace Mullins, National Renaissance Party, Stephen Nenoff, Gerald L. K. Smith, Jack B. Tenney, H. Keith Thompson, James R. White, Robert H. Williams, Gerald Winrod, Peter L. Xavier, and Allen A. Zoll. A mimeographed report on "The Dissident Political Movement—1956" (March 1956) cites American Good Government Society, Inc., American Mercury, The American Reporter (Sacramento, California), Prof. John O. Beaty, Black Monday (Judge Tom P. Brady), Judge Tom P. Brady, Mary D. Cain, Coalition Now (J. Harvie Williams), Christian Anti-Jewish Party (J. B. Stoner), Christian Nationalist Party (Gerald L. K. Smith), Committee for the 48 States, Congress of Freedom, Constitution Coalition Council, Constitution Party (San Antonio), Kent Courtney, Defenders of the American Constitution, Lt. Gen. Pedro A. del Valle (USMC ret.), Facts Forum (H. L. Hunt), Federation for Constitutional Government (John U. Barr), General Bonner Fellers, John T. Flynn, For America, Free Men Speak, Interim Committee for a New Party (ICNP), Iron Curtain Over America (John O. Beaty), Know Your Enemy, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, W. Henry MacFarland, Jr., Dean Clarence Manion, National Renaissance Party, Nationalist Conservative Party of Chicago (William B. Wernecke), Nationalist Party (West Hooker), Right (C. W. Thomas, San Francisco), W. J. Simmons, Dan Smoot, Gen. Stratemeyer, The Summit Sun, We, The People, White Citizens' Council, and Zion's Trojan Horse (Jack B. Tenney).

References:

Inventory of records of the American Jewish Committee, 1906-80, by Seymour J. Pomrenze (New York, N.Y., American Jewish Committee, Institute of Human Relations, 1981); Index to the Inventory of records of the American Jewish Committee, 1906-80, by Jessica L. Milstead and Beverly A. Pajer (New York, N.Y., American Jewish Committee, 1994).

Websites with information:

http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33740

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http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1863758

http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33847

http://www.ajcarchives.org/ajcarchive/DigitalArchive.aspx

[0111] Records of American Jewish Congress, undated, 1916-2006 (bulk 1949-2003), I-77

Location: American Jewish Historical Society, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011