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

Description: The Small Manuscript collection includes correspondence, eye witness reports, genealogies, diaries, old newspaper clippings, reminiscences, short stories, early histories of cities and towns, small maps, surveys, and military documents. Box 22 contains Papers of the American Protective League, 1918. Box 62 contains in 12 folders a Ku Klux Klan Collection, 1923-1973, consisting of such materials as Forms for the Grand Dragon, Realm of Arizona Report Forms Membership and Interest Cards Brochures Forms and Cards Regarding Women in KKK, Publications of the Women of the Klan, Correspondence regarding financial reports, donations, and other Klan business, Kaktus Klan, Realm of Arizona, Application Questionnaires, Articles on Intolerance, and The Ku Klux Klan in Arizona.

Websites with information:

http://www.ahfweb.org/collections_manuscripts_A.html

Finding aids:

http://www.ahfweb.org/download/SmManuscripts.pdf

http://www.arizonahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/upLoads/library_Small-Manuscripts.pdf

[0185] Arkansas Archives of Public Communication, 1890-1996, MC 942 [sound recordings]

Location: Special Collections Department, University of Arkansas Libraries, 365 N. McIlroy Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72701-4002

Description: The Arkansas Archives of Public Communication consists of materials relating to politics, with an emphasis on politics in Arkansas. The Archives include materials from the political campaigns of Bill Clinton, Orval Faubus, and almost 400 other politicians.. Series 3. Audio and Video Tapes. Subseries 4. B Series Audio Tapes, contains 543 tapes from the conservative National Education Program's "Behind the News" radio show, featuring George Benson, president of Harding College in Searcy, and his successor, J. Terry Johnson of Enterprise Square, Oklahoma. These tapes are dated from March 1975 to August 1985. Topics discussed include Abortion, Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Communism, Busing, Communism, Communism--World Domination, Conservatism--Assaults on, Conservative Ideology, Conspiracy Theory, Constitutional Convention--Need for, Council on Foreign Relations, Cuba, Cults, Equal Rights Amendment, Fairness Doctrine, Federal Gov.--Limiting of, Federal Gov.--Socialistic Trends, Federal Reserve System, First Amendment, Ford Foundation, Foundations--Tax-Exempt, Free Enterprise System, Freedom House, Gun Control, Edward Hunter, Individualism, Dr. Walter Judd, Douglas MacArthur, Monroe Doctrine, Moral Decay, National Education Program, National Health Insurance, Nicaragua, Operation Rescue, Panama Canal, Prayer in Schools, Private Property--Right to, Pupil Rights Amendment, Race Relations, The Reuther Memorandum [online at http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/08/reuther-memorandum-1961.html], Right to Work, Sagebrush Rebellion, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Sons of the American Revolution, Texas Free Enterprise Project, Textbook Evaluation, Trilateral Commission, UNESCO, United Nations, United States Day, Ludwig von Mises, and World Government.

Websites with information:

http://libraries.uark.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/atoz.asp

http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/atoz.asp

Finding aids:

http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/findingaids/aapc.html

https://libraries.uark.edu/specialcollections/findingaids/aapc.html

[0186] Arkansas Council on Human Relations Office Records, 1954-1968, MS Ar4 ACHR

Location: Special Collections Department, University of Arkansas Libraries, 365 N. McIlroy Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72701-4002

Description: The records pertain to the creation, organization, and functioning of the Council, and to the activities and interests of its officers, directors, staff, membership, supporters, and opponents in regard to race relations in Arkansas. Subject files on Richard Arens, "The Communist Campaign Against Our Immigration Service," The American Mercury Magazine (March 1958); Association of Citizen's Councils of Arkansas; Association of the Citizen's Council, Greenwood, Mississippi; Augusta Courier [Roy V. Harris]; Circuit Riders, Inc.; Common Sense; Communism; The Cross and the Flag; James O[liver] Eastland; Far Right; Orval Eugene Faubus; Firing Line; John T. Flynn, "Fifty Americans in Search of a Party," The American Mercury Magazine (Feb. 1955); John W. Hamilton; J. Edgar Hoover; John Birch Society; The Lowdown on Little Rock, by Joseph P. Kamp (New York, 1957); "We Do Not Believe In God"... said Walter Reuther, by Joseph P. Kamp (New York, 1958); John Kasper; Ku Klux Klan; National Citizens Protective Association; "Operation Abolition"; R. Carter Pittman; R. Carter Pittman, "The Federal Invasion of Arkansas in the Light of the Constitution," Georgia Bar Journal, Vol. XX, No. 3 (February 1958); Pro-Segregation Groups; George Lincoln Rockwell; School Desegregation; George E. Sokolsky, "Air Force Manual Charge Against the Churches"; Tennessee White Citizens Councils; Un-American Activities Committee; The Virginian; The Virginian Pilot (Norfolk - Portsmouth, Va.) - 1955 clippings; Thomas R. Waring, "The Southern Case Against Desegregation," Harpers (January 1956); Robert H. W. Welch, Jr.; White Citizens Groups; White Sentinel (National Citizens Protective Association); White America, Inc.; White Citizens Council; and John Bell Williams. A file of attacks on the Southern Regional Council, Dec. 10, 1954-Apr 14, 1961, contains copies of "Help Save America", a publication of "The Grass Roots League" of Charleston, South Carolina, and The Firing Line, published by the American Legion's National Americanism Commission.

Websites with information:

http://libraries.uark.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/atoz.asp

http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/atoz.asp

Finding aids:

http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/findingaids/achr/

http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/findingaids/achr/indextosubjects.asp

[0187] Arkansas Gazette and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Indexes, 1880s-1990s [online newspaper index]

Location: Library, Arkansas Tech University, 305 West Q Street, Russellville, AR 72801

Description: Searchable PDFs of many years of the Arkansas Gazette Index. The documents are organized by themes and citations of newspaper articles. The 1963 index, for example, includes the following topics: George S. Benson, John Birch Society, Civil Rights and Discrimination, Communism, Desegregation, Medford Evans, Gov. Orval Faubus, Harding College, Billy James Hargis, Ku Klux Klan, Patriots League at Pine Bluff, Edwin A. Walker, and White Citizens Council.

Reference:

Shannon J. Henderson, Arkansas Gazette Index: An Arkansas Index (Russellville, Arkansas, Arkansas Tech University Library, 1993), http://library.atu.edu/research/AGI/PDF/AGI-1963-64_ABOR-GRAN.pdf, http://library.atu.e

du/research/AGI/PDF/AGI-1963-64_GRAP-ZOOS.pdf

Websites with information:

http://library.atu.edu/research/AGI/

[0188] Arkansas Ku Klux Klan materials, 1923-1972, BC.MSS.04.30

Location: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 100 Rock Street, Little Rock, Arkansas, 72201

Description: This collection contains materials related to the Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas and across the South. Copies of "The Menace of Modern Immigration" address by Dr. H. W. Evans, Imperial Wizard, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1923; Booklet: "The Pope Clutches at World Supremacy," reprint from The Kourier Magazine, June 1929; Pamphlet: "You Are Being Robbed," by Russell Maguire, from American Mercury Magazine, LXXXV.402, July 1957, p. 162, online at http://unz.org/Pub/AmMercury-1957jul:164; Flyer: "Patriots and Klansmen of Arkansas Beware," with an open letter to George F. Edwards from R. E. Davis, National Imperial Dragon, November 1959; Pamphlet: "Know the United Nations: a Page from American History 1945-1962" from the United Klans of America, Inc.; Pamphlet: "The Ugly Truth About Martin Luther King," undated; Two page flyer: "What We Can Do as an Individual to to [sic] Preserve White America," Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, undated; Flyer: "We Challenge the Jews!" undated; Flyer: "Conquer and Breed," undated; Pamphlet: "Mystic Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Ride Again!," Little Rock, Ark., undated; Derogatory NAACP membership application; The Cross and the Flag (Christian Nationalist Crusade), Vol. 23 No.8, November 1964; The Fiery Cross, Vol. 1 No. 1, Alabama, June 1959, Vol. 1 No. 2, Alabama, July 1959; The Fiery Cross, Vol. 1 No. 1, Dallas, Texas, November 1959; The Kourier: The Magazine of Americanism, Vol. 7 No. 2, January 1931; Voice of Freedom, Vol. 7 No. 1, January 1959; Declaration of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, undated; Oath of Allegiance. One copy with a heading for U.S. Klans, Knights of the Klu[sic] Klux Klan, Inc. and one copy with a heading for Mystic Nights[sic] of the Ku Klux Klan, undated; Kloran, U.S. Klans of Georgia, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1953 [The Kloran is the handbook of the KKK]; Copyright certificate for Kloran U.S. Klans of Georgia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, by Eldon Edwards, 1953; Constitution and Laws, of U.S. Klans, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1955; Copyright certificate for Constitution and Laws, of the U.S. Klans, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, by Eldon Edwards, 1957; Constitution and Kloran, Association of Arkansas Klans of the Ku Klux Klan, 1959-1961; Knights of Columbus Oath (blank), written on and stamped with the name of Rubin Johnson, Little Rock, Ark., undated; Informational card for Mystic Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Little Rock, Ark., 1959-1961; Ku Klux Klan Application, Little Rock, Ark., 1959; "Kaukasia Krusade," application (blank) for membership in the Knights Ku Klux Klan, Little Rock, Ark., undated; Klipgrapp's Quarterly Report for Klan No. 1, Realm of Arkansas, 2nd Quarter, 1959; Mystic Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Inc., The Klonklave meeting structure and ceremony outlines, undated; Certificate of Acceptance appointing A. C. Hightower Grand Dragon of the Realm of Arkansas, signed by E. L. Edwards, Imperial Wizard, Invisible Empire, May 20, 1959; Booklet: "Kloran of Ritual of The Women of the Ku Klux Klan," Imperial Headquarters, Women of the Ku Klux Klan, Little Rock, Ark., ca. 1925; Booklet: "Constitution and Laws of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan," adopted at the First Imperial Klonvocation at St. Louis, Missouri, January 6, 1927; and Booklet: "Musiklan," Imperial Headquarters, Women of the Ku Klux Klan, Little Rock, Ark., Membership certificate, Women of the Ku Klux Klan, Little Rock, Ark. (blank).