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Description: The records of the American Jewish Congress, a national Jewish agency, concerned primarily with Jewish and other minority civil rights, include the constitution, by-laws, and minutes of the Administrative and Executive Committees and Governing Council of the Congress. The American Jewish Congress Records collects archival material from the creation of the organization to its later years, from 1915 through 2005. Files on "Benjamin Franklin Vindicated" (November 1938), "Father Coughlin: His 'Facts' and Arguments" (1939) [online at https://ia800303.us.archive.org/7/items/FatherCoughlinHisFactsAnd­Arguments_201502/Father%20Coughlin%20his%20facts%20and

%20arguments.PDF], "The Claim of 'Nordic' Race Supremacy," by Johan J. Smertenko (1924), Academic freedom and Shockley [William Shockley], American Mercury, Anti-Semitic literature collection, Institute of Jewish Affairs, Anti-Semitism in the U.S., Richard Arens, Becker Amendment, Benjamin Franklin forgery, Bombings, 1958-1962, Bricker Amendment, Bricker Resolution, Patrick Buchanan, Camps for Subversives, Church and State - Religion in Public Schools (Becker Amendment), Church and State - Religion and Politics (Contract with the American Family, Moral Majority, New Christian Right, Religious Right, Pat Robertson, Thomas G. Tancredo, Paul Weyrich), Conde McGinley, Discrimination - Private Club Discrimination, 1952-2001, Discrimination - Ku Klux Klan and Extremist Groups (David Duke, Knight Riders of the Ku Klux Klan, Military and white supremacist activity, Neo-Nazi and Aryan Nation, Paramilitary training camps, Recruitment on internet, Skinheads), Discrimination - Anti-Semitism and Race Relations, Discrimination - Hate Crimes and Vandalism, Robert Dole, Equal rights amendment, Evangelical Right, Extremist speech, Jerry Falwell, Family Research Council, Farm crisis, Father Feeney, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Paul Findley, Flag salute and burning, Leo Frank, Genocide and Human Rights Treaties, Newt Gingrich, Gun control, Hate speech, Helms Amendment, Heritage Foundation, Holocaust revisionism, House Un-American Activities Committee, International anti-Semitism, Jewish Defense League, Jewish religious right, John Birch Society, Meir Kahane, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ku Klux Klan, Liberty Lobby, McCarthyism, Moral Majority, National Rifle Association, Nazis, Neo-conservatives, Neo-Nazism, Oberammergau, Pat Robertson, Prayer amendments (Helms/Byrd), Promise Keepers Movement, Queens Nazi movement, Racial Segregation, Ronald Reagan, Reese Investigation of tax exempt organizations, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Resolution regarding censure of Senator McCarthy, Pat Robertson, George Rockwell, School Desegregation, School prayer, School vouchers, Segregation, Skokie, Illinois, Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America, Soviet anti-Semitism, Valerian Trifa, United States Citizen vs. Senator Theo. G. Bilbo, and James P. Warburg.

Websites with information:

http://www.cjh.org/p/93

Finding aids:

http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=365446

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=365446

http://www.cjh.org/nhprc/AmericanJewishCongress.pdf

[0112] American Jewish Congress, Northern California Division records, 1957-1988, Coll. BANC MSS 2010/702

Location: Western Jewish Americana, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 94720-6000

Description: The American Jewish Congress (AJC) was founded in 1916, and reorganized in 1920 and 1938. The Northern California Division was officially founded in December 1943. The collection documents the activities of the American Jewish Congress' Northern California Division from 1960 through the mid-1980s. It contains minutes (1960-1982, incomplete), financial records, membership records, annual reports, articles, programs, newsletters, press releases, clippings, correspondence, briefs and published material, and some photographs. Series 4 Subject Files. 1957-1988, contains files on Holocaust, Institute of Historical Review ("Holocaust Debunkers"), Jewish Defense League (JDL), John Birch Society, Nazi Activity in San Francisco (Vincent Suit), and Programs—Nazis and the First Amendment/L. A. Greenfeld

Websites with information:

http://www.magnes.org/collections/archives/western-jewish-americana

http://www.magnes.org/collections/archives/western-jewish-americana/american-jewish-congress-northern-california-division-

Finding aids:

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/berkeley/bancroft/m2010_702_cubanc.pdf

http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/n2/kt9j49q6n2/files/kt9j49q6n2.pdf

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3m3nf1j3/entire_text/

[0113] American Labor Conference on International Affairs. Records, 1939-1950, TAM.038

Location: Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012

Description: The American Labor Conference on International Affairs (ALCIA), a non socialist group, was organized in February 1943 by several labor leaders. The primary purpose of ALCIA was to engage in research on international economic and political problems for the benefit of the American labor movement. ALCIA published reports on political, economic, labor, and educational questions, and a monthly magazine entitled Modern Review between March 1947 and 1949, whose contributors included Louis Fischer and Granville Hicks. The collection includes correspondence, resolutions, constitutions and by laws, reports, conference papers, financial papers, press releases, speeches, minutes, memoranda, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, rough drafts of articles, and form letters. Series 1. Correspondence, 1941-1947, n.d., contains subject files on Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Foreign Policy Association, Foundations, and Institute of Pacific Relations. Correspondents include Max Eastman and Wendell Willkie. Series 2. Office files, 1940-1947, n.d., contains Albert Halasi's essay on the Bretton Woods agreements and George Denicke's article on the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, as well as files on Christopher Emmet, Alfred Kohlberg, and Gaetano Salvemini. Series 3. Modern Review files, 1939-1950, n.d., contains a file on Daniel Bell and his work as editor of the Modern Review in 1949. Correspondents include Richard Hofstadter, Seymour Martin Lipset, and Granville Hicks.

Websites with information:

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/fa_index.html

Finding aid:

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_038/

[0114] Records of the American League for an Undivided Ireland (ALFUI), 1940-1965 (bulk 1947-1957)

Location: University Archives and Special Collections, St. John's University, St. Augustine Hall - Room B20, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, New York 11439

Description: The American League for an Undivided Ireland was organized in New York City in March 26, 1947. The aim of the organization was to make every possible effort to abolish the partition of Ireland. The vast majority of the documents are letters between members of the organization, their correspondence with individuals from the U.S. Congress and with members of the Irish government, especially from the Parliament of Northern Ireland. Correspondents include Edward Lodge Curran, Everett M. Dirksen, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., John Davis Lodge, Joe McCarthy, and Burton K. Wheeler.

Websites with information:

http://www.stjohns.edu/libraries/archives/special-collections

http://stjohnsarchives.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/american-league-undivided-ireland/

Finding aid:

http://www.stjohns.edu/sites/default/files/mc_american_league_undivided_ireland.pdf

[0114a] American Left Ephemera Collection, 1894-2008, AIS.2007.11 [digital collection]

Location: Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh, 7500 Thomas Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15208