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

Finding aids:

http://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/WAS

http://www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/412.htm

http://web.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/412.htm

http://dscalm.warwick.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCm

d=NaviTree.tcl&dsqField=RefNo&dsqItem=WAS

[0198] Robert T. Ashmore Papers, 1914-2002

Location: South Carolina Political Collections, Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library, University of South Carolina Libraries, 1322 Greene Street, Columbia, SC 29208

Description: Robert T. Ashmore (1904-1989) represented South Carolina's 4th District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1953 to January 1969. Contains files on Civil Rights and Communism. Documents include constituent letters concerning Ashmore's claim that Communism was infiltrating the American way of life and Ashmore's attack on Protestant ministers and educators, 1958; a variety of anti-Communist propaganda distributed within the United States in the 1950s; and a 1951 House Report on the spread of Communism in the American way of life.

Websites with information:

http://library.sc.edu/p/Collections/SCPC/Collections

http://library.sc.edu/blogs/scpc/2012/03/01/scpc-research-guide-the-cold-war-part-2/

Finding aids:

http://library.sc.edu/scpc/ashmore.html

http://library.sc.edu/scpc/Ashmore.pdf

[0198a] Asian People's Anti-Communist League

Location: Wilson Center Digital Archive, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza - 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20004-3027 [digital collection]

Description: The Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League included South Korea, the Philippines, South Vietnam, and a number of other Asian countries and territories. The collection contains 58 documents on several of the early conferences convened by the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League in South Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam and attended by delegations from across Asia.

Finding aid:

http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/193/asian-peoples-anti-communist-league

[0199] Asiatic Exclusion League records, 1906-1910, larc.ms.0145

Location: Labor Archives and Research Center, J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460, San Francisco State University, 1630 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132-1722

Description: The Asiatic Exclusion League was founded in 1905 in San Francisco, California, as the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League. In 1908 the organization changed its name to the Asiatic Exclusion League. The bulk of the Asiatic Exclusion League records consist of the minutes and proceedings of monthly meetings and the first convention of the League, spanning the years 1906-1910; the collection also contains the proceedings of the first two conventions of the Anti-Japanese Laundry League founded in 1908; the transcript of a debate at St. Ignatius College; a pamphlet by Samuel Gompers on Asian workers entitled "Meat vs. Rice"; and a detailed index to its contents. In addition to these items, photocopies of selected articles on Asian exclusion from the Labor Clarion between 1904-1915 were added to the collection in 2006.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89k4c1p/entire_text/

[0200] Association for the Liberation of Ukraine (ALU) Records, 1966-1989, IHRC #250

Location: Ukrainian American Collection, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, 311 Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 21st Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Description: The Association for the Liberation of Ukraine (Soiuz Vyzvolennia Ukrainy) was founded in Germany in 1952. Since 1959, its headquarters have been in New York City, with branches in other countries. The Association is a political organization which maintains a conservative-right view and publishes occasionally the journal Misiia Ukrainy (Mission of Ukraine). Records of the Association for the Liberation of Ukraine (ALU) consist of materials pertaining to the organization's activities in the United States.

Finding aid:

http://ihrc.umn.edu/research/vitrage/all/am/ihrc250.html

[0201] Association for Voluntary Sterilization Records, 1929-1981 (bulk 1945-1977), SW 15

Location: Social Welfare History Archives, 320 Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota, 222 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Description: The Association for Voluntary Sterilization (AVS) promoted the benefits of voluntary sterilization as a means of family planning and population control. Its predecessor, The Sterilization League of New Jersey, was formed in 1937 to promote the eugenic sterilization of the physically and developmentally disabled and persons with mental illness. Various name changes reflected the association's growing emphasis on voluntary sterilization as a means of birth control and ongoing efforts to disassociate itself from eugenic sterilization. Includes records of predecessor organizations that promoted eugenic sterilization. Contains primarily: minutes, correspondence, clippings, financial records, reports, and statistics showing sterilizations by state. Topics include: eugenic sterilization of mentally ill and developmentally disabled persons; medical, legal, and socio-economic aspects of sterilization; efforts to educate doctors, social workers, and the public about sterilization; referrals and financial assistance for individuals seeking sterilization; lawsuits against hospitals that denied sterilization procedures; regional and international voluntary sterilization programs in Appalachia and developing countries; public responses for and against sterilization; and the administration of AVS and its predecessors. Series 1.1 AVS Predecessors, 1929-1969, contains minutes and papers of the five predecessors of AVS: Sterilization League of New Jersey, Sterilization League for Human Betterment, Birthright, Human Betterment Association of America, and Human Betterment Association for Voluntary Sterilization. Subseries Sterilization League of New Jersey contains a model sterilization bill presented to the New Jersey legislature and material pertaining to Roman Catholic opposition to sterilization. Correspondents include the American Birth Control League and H. L. Mencken. Subseries Birthright includes material re the proposal of W. P. Draper to sterilize 100,000 in the South to prevent the advance of miscegeny and on the impact of the Nazi sterilization program on activities in the U.S. Among the correspondents are Sheldon Reed, director of the University of Minnesota Dight Institute, and C. M. Goethe. Series 4.3 General Correspondence, 1950-1974, contains files on Hon. James L. Buckley, Senator Everett Dirksen, Wickliffe Draper, Euthanasia Educational Fund, Inc., Euthanasia Society of America, Heredity, Human Betterment Federation, Human Betterment Foundation, Immigration, H. L. Mencken, Frederick Osborn, and the Scaife Family of Pittsburgh. Series 4.4 International Correspondence, 1951-1973, contains a file on C. M. Goethe. Series 7. Sterilization Statistics, 1935-1969, contains sterilization statistics which were gathered annually or biennially by the Human Betterment Foundation. The Foundation was established in 1928 by Ezra S. Gosney, a Pasadena philanthropist, to "foster and aid constructive and educational forces for the protection and betterment of the human family." Series 9.9 Newspaper Clippings 1945-1976, consists of newspaper clippings regarding sterilization-related subjects, including material re sterilization in Nazi Germany. The subseries Newspaper clippings: Syndicated Columnists contains clippings of columns by John Chamberlain and Paul Harvey.

Finding aids:

http://discover.lib.umn.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=umfa;cc=umfa;q1=Association%20for%20­Voluntary

%20Sterilization%20Records;rgn=main;view=text;didno=SW0015

http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/sw0015.xml