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

Finding aids:

http://arstudies.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/findingaids/id/7397/show/7395/rec/3

http://arstudies.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/findingaids/id/7397/show/7396/rec/4

http://arstudies.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/findingaids/id/7397/rec/5

[0188a] Arkansas Women's Project Collection, 1980-early 1990's, M95-03

Location: UCA Archives, Torreyson Library, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway, AR 72035

Description: The Arkansas Women's Project was founded in 1980 as a grass roots organization intended to promote support for women's issues in the state of Arkansas. Originally called The Arkansas Women's Training Project, it was operated under the direction of Suzanne Pharr (1939- ). The collection consists of organizational records, correspondence, staff notes, project materials, publications, and newsletters. Series II. Projects and programs, contains files on Homophobia; Same Sex Marriage; Hate Groups in Arkansas; Hate Crimes: Black Church Burning; Hate Crimes Bill; Hate Crimes: Asian Americans; Violence Against Women; Newspaper Articles on Hate Crimes; Book – When Hate Comes To Town by Center for Democratic Renewal, 2001-"02 Edition; Fight The Right; Promise Keepers – Organizations Against; Promise Keepers Organization; "Institute in Basic Life Principles" of Rev. Bill Gothard; Pastor W. N. Otwell; and Religious Right in Arkansas. Series IV. Suzanne Pharr materials, contains a file on Religious Right. Series V. Photographs, contains photographs of Anti-Klan Rally November 1990; KKK Rally to Save the Flag: State Capital Little Rock Arkansas, July 1990; anti-David Duke Demonstration at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, April 17, 1991; and Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Demonstration and Anti-Klan Demonstration, June 1994.

Websites with information:

http://uca.edu/archives/manuscript-collections/

Finding aid:

http://uca.edu/archives/m95-03-arkansas-womens-project-collection/

[0189] Richard K. Armey Collection, 1939-2002 (bulk 1985-2002)

Location: Congressional Archives, Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, University of Oklahoma, 630 Parrington Oval, Room 101, Norman, OK 73019

Description: Richard Keith "Dick" Armey (1940- ) was a U.S. Representative from Texas' 26th congressional district (1985-2003) and House Majority Leader (1995-2003). Series 1: Clippings, 1983-2002, includes materials from national and Texas newspapers on a variety of topics, including abortion, anti-Semitism, burned black churches, conservatism, Contract with America, Contras in Nicaragua, Tom DeLay, Newt Gingrich, gun control, homosexuality, Jack Kemp, morality, prayer in schools, printed transcript of Rush Limbaugh interview with Richard K. Armey, racism, religious right, and school vouchers. Series 5: Schedules, 1985-2002, includes topics such as abortion, Conservative Opportunity Society, March for Life, National Right to Work Committee. Correspondents include American Security Council, Americans United for Life, Bill Archer, Cass Ballenger, Haley Barbour, Patrick J. Buchanan, William F. Buckley, Jr., George W. Bush, Cato Institute, Concerned Women for America, Conservative Digest, Philip M. Crane, Tom DeLay, Robert K. Dornan, Jack Fields, Newt Gingrich, Phil Gramm, Jesse Helms, Heritage Foundation, Jack Kemp, Trent Lott, National Religious Broadcasters, National Taxpayers Union, Oliver North, Pat Robertson, Karl Rove, Phyllis Schlafly (president of Eagle Forum), Strom Thurmond, Paul M. Weyrich, George F. Will, and Young America's Foundation. Series 12: Legislative, 1985-2002, contains files on abortion, freedom of access to clinic entrances, partial birth abortion ban, and The House Republican Plan for a Better America.

Websites with information:

http://www.ou.edu/special/albertctr/archives/collect.htm

Finding aids:

http://www.ou.edu/special/albertctr/archives/ArmeyInventory/armey.htm

http://cacarchives.ou.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=4&q=

[0190] J.A. Armfield Papers, ca. 1979-1983 [partly digital collection]

Location: Greensboro Historical Museum Archives, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC 27401

Description: The J.A. Armfield Papers consist primarily of items relating to the Greensboro Police Department, ca. 1979-1983, where Armfield was employed. Materials pertaining to the November 3, 1979, anti-Klan march that left five protestors dead comprise the bulk of the papers. Included are a police operations plan, posters, flyers, and newspaper articles.

Finding aid to digital collection:

https://library.uncg.edu/dp/crg/collection.aspx?c=69

[0191] George W. Armstrong Papers, 1891-1976, bulk 1914-1954, AR335

Location: Special Collections Division at The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 702 Planetarium Place, Arlington, TX 76019

Description: George W. Armstrong (1866-1954) was a businessman, lawyer, and politician. Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, research notes, and publications. The George W. Armstrong Papers include his business and personal papers, 1914-1954; the papers of his wife, Mary C. Armstrong, 1949-1975; the George Van Horn Moseley Papers, 1947-1954; the Armstrong publication and pamphlet collection, 1909-1976; and posters, newspapers, and scrapbooks, 1891-1961. Armstrong's political correspondence reflects his activities with the Judge Armstrong Foundation and the Texas Educational Association, and his relationships with right-wing exponents including the Ku Klux Klan and leaders of the American anti-Semitic movement of the period, such as Gerald L. K. Smith and Elizabeth Dilling. The papers of George Van Horn Moseley, who headed the Judge Armstrong Foundation, 1949-1954, consist of his correspondence with Armstrong and others during this time and other records pertaining to the business of the foundation and the Texas Education Association. The Armstrong publication and pamphlet collection includes writings by Armstrong and others, research material, and correspondence. The last series contains notebooks, clippings, and flyers related to Armstrong's early political and business activities in Tarrant County; clippings of articles by Armstrong; ledgers from the Mississippi plantations; and newspapers, political posters, books, and pamphlets which reflect Armstrong's political philosophy. Series I. George W. Armstrong Correspondence and Papers, 1914-1954, contains correspondence with Marilyn R. Allen; Mrs. Ed C. Alumbaugh; American Gentile Protective Association; George W. Armstrong, Jr.; John Beaty; George S. Benson, president of Harding College in Arkansas; Grace Billings, editor of the anti-Semitic newsletter Women's Voice; Congressman Charles G. Binderup; The Britons, an English Fascist organization; Emory Burke; W. J. Cameron, editor of the Dearborn Independent; Frank W. Clark, President of the War Veterans Guardians; Upton Close (Josef Washington Hall); Calvin Coolidge; Bruce B. Corbin, an anti-Semitic Methodist minister; Fr. Charles E. Coughlin; Walter Crick, an English monetary reformer and associate of Arthur Kitson; J. S. Cullinan; Ida M. Darden, an Austin-based right-wing journalist and former associate of John H. Kirby, editor of the Southern Conservative; W. E. De Witt, of the Monetary Reform League; George Deatherage; Martin Dies; Elizabeth Dilling; Senator James O. Eastland; Economic Reform Club of England; Robert E. Edmondson, publisher of an anti-Semitic newsletter; Milton Elrod, editor of the Klansman, the official Klan paper; H. W. Evans, a national leader of the Ku Klux Klan; Farmers' Holiday Association; A. N. Field, a New Zealand anti-Semite and monetary theorist; Col. Ulrich Fleischhauer, editor of the World Service Newsletter, a Nazi publication; Frank E. Gannett of the Gannett newspapers; Senator Carter Glass; William A. Hanger, a Tarrant County State Senator and local leader of the Klan; J. V. Hardy of the Anti Al Smith Democrats; Merwin K. Hart, founder of the National Economic Council; W. H. "Coin" Harvey; Brown Harwood, a Klan leader; Senator J. Thomas Heflin; Will Hogg; Honest Money Founders; Charles B. Hudson, publisher of America In Danger!, an anti-Semitic newsletter; Harry A. Jung, editor of the American Vigilant Intelligence Federation, an anti-Semitic newsletter; Justice For Pelley Committee; Joseph Kamp; H. M. Keeling, an official of the Farmers' Holiday Association; Ann H. P. Kent, the mother of Tyler Kent; John Henry Kirby; Frederick Kister; Arthur Kitson; V. N. Kositsin, a White Russian anti-Semitic propagandist; Thomas B. Lee, a banker and amateur monetary theorist; Arnold S. Leese, an English anti-Semitic propagandist and Fascist political figure; Congressman William Lemke; Fulton Lewis; M. D. Lightfoot, Chairman of the National Constitutional Democrats Committee [anti-Smith]; Don Lohbeck; Senator Huey Long; Douglas MacArthur; Henry MacFarland; Col. W. G. MacKindric, Canadian monetary reformer, and anti-Semite; Dr. Ulrich Marquardt, an anti-Semitic propagandist; Z. E. Marvin, Dallas Klan leader; Russell Massey, a banker who wrote tracts on monetary reform; Col. Billy Mayfield, editor of Billy Mayfield's Weekly, a pro-Klan Texas newspaper; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Conde McGinley; Eugene Meyer; Alvin S. Moody, chairman of the "Hoover Democrats" and an official of the Texas Anti-Al Smith Democrats; George Van Horn Moseley; J. T. Newsom, an officer of the Farmers' Holiday Association; W. Lee O'Daniel; Willis Overholser, of the National Monetary Conference; Senator Robert Owen, President of the National Monetary Conference; Congressman Wright Patman; Adelaide Pelley Pearson, William Dudley Pelley's daughter; Westbrook Pegler; William Dudley Pelley; Pelley Publications, the propaganda organ for William Dudley Pelley's Silver Shirt fascist party; Gibbons Poteet, a Roxton, Texas, banker and monetary reformer; John E. Rankin; Milo Reno, president of the Farmers' Holiday Association; George W. Robnett (Church League of America); Col. Eugene N. Sanctuary; Fredrick H. Schmalz, an anti-Semitic propagandist; A. C. Shuler, of the Ku Klux Klan; Robert L. Slimp, a young States Rights Democrat; Gerald L. K. Smith; Jeremiah Stokes, Elizabeth Dilling's second husband; Herman Talmadge; Fr. A. W. Terminiello; the Texas Regulars, the Dixiecrat faction of the Texas Democratic party; Senator Elmer Thomas; Congressman Jacob Thorkelson; Strom Thurmond; James True, editor of the anti-Semitic newsletter Industrial Control Reports; Agnes Waters; Tom Watson; Atticus Webb, chairman of the Texas Anti-Saloon league; M. I. Woodward, an editor of the Dearborn Independent; M. B. Yeary, Secretary of the Farmer's Mercantile Association, an old Populist and monetary reform advocate; and Allen Zoll. Series II. Mary C. Armstrong Papers, 1949-1975, contains correspondence with George Armstrong, Jr.; Ida M. Darden; Mary Isham Keith Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution; Merwin K. Hart; Joseph Kamp; Liberty Lobby; Conde McGinley; George Van Horn Moseley; National Economic Council; and Gerald L. K. Smith. Series III. George Van Horn Moseley Papers, 1949-1954, contains correspondence with Marilyn R. Allen; George W. Armstrong; George W. Jr. Armstrong; American Heritage Protective Committee; H. H. Beamish; Emory Burke; Elizabeth Dilling; Ida M. Darden; James O. Eastland; William Henry MacFarland; Charles B. Hudson; Joseph Kamp; Conde McGinley; W. Lee O'Daniel; John E. Rankin; Gerald L. K. Smith; A. C. Shuler; and Strom Thurmond.