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

[0202] Assembly of Captive European Nations, Records, 1953-1972, IHRC #136

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

Description: The Assembly of Captive European Nations (ACEN) was a coalition of representatives from nine nations who found themselves under the yoke of Soviet domination after World War II. Membership in the organization consisted of former government and cultural leaders from Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania. Founded on September 20, 1954, the ACEN was established to "symbolize in one name both the plight and the aims of the Central and Eastern European nations," which were either unrepresented or misrepresented in the United Nations. Series I. Internal Organization. Subseries 4 - Committee Members, has files on Vilis Masens, George M. Dimitrov, Brutus Coste, and Nuci Kotta. Series II. ACEN Member Organizations, has files on Jozef Lettrich, Aleksander Kutt, and Béla Fábián/Federation of Hungarian Former Political Prisoners. Series IV.- General Committee. Subseries 4 - Speakers Bureau. Speakers on East-Central Europe, contains files on George Dimitrov, Stefan Korbonski, Ferenc Nagy, Štefan Osuský, and Vaclovas Sidzikauskas. Series IX - Relations with Governments. Subseries 6 - United States Senate, has a file on William F. Knowland. Subseries 7 - United States House of Representatives, has files on Committee on Foreign Affairs - Pillion Resolution and Committee on Un-American Activities. Series X. Relations with Non-governmental Organizations and Individuals, Subseries 1. Political Organizations, contains files on All American Conference to Combat Communism, Americans to Free Captive Nations, American Friends of Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, American Friends of the Captive Nations, American Legion, American National Committee for the Freedom of Enslaved Nations, American Security Council, Anti-Communist Organizations, Asian People's Anti-Communist League, Citizens' Foreign Relations Committee, Committee for Freedom for All Peoples, Committee of One Million, Council Against Communist Aggression, Crusade Against Communism, Crusade For Freedom, Foreign Policy Association, Information Council of the Americas, and Liberty Amendment Committee of the USA. Subseries 6. Individuals, has files on Alfred Kohlberg, Clarence Manion, and Herbert A. Philbrick.

Finding aids:

http://archives.ihrc.umn.edu/vitrage/all/am/GENassembly.htm

http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/research/vitrage/all/am/GENassembly.htm

http://ihrc.umn.edu/research/vitrage/all/am/GENassembly.htm

[0203] Association of Citizens Councils of Mississippi Papers

Location: Archives and Records Services Division, William F. Winter Archives and History Building, The Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 200 North Street, Jackson, MS 39201

Description: The Association of Citizens Councils of Mississippi was founded in Winona, Mississippi, in 1954 as a statewide body.

References:

Charles C. Bolton, "Mississippi's School Equalization Program, 1945-1954: 'A Last Gasp to Try to Maintain a Segregated Educational System,'" Journal of Southern History, 66(4) (2000), pp. 781-814, http://libres.uncg.edu/

ir/uncg/f/C_Bolton_Mississippi_2000.pdf; Charles C. Bolton, The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 (University Press of Mississippi, 2005); David L. Chappell, A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2005).

[0204] Association of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi records, 1961-1967 and undated

Location: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Box 90185, 103 Perkins Library, Durham, North Carolina 27708

Description: The first Citizens' Council (also known as the White Citizens' Council) was formed in Indianola, Mississippi, following the United States Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which struck down segregation in public schools. White businessmen, planters, and professionals organized the group to prevent the court's ruling from taking hold in Mississippi. Other Citizens' Council chapters were formed around the state, and within three months a statewide body, the Association of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi, began in Winona, Mississippi. By 1956, the group claimed eighty thousand members in Mississippi. It was particularly active in the Delta region and also had a powerful Jackson chapter, led by William J. Simmons (1916-2007). A national group, the Citizens' Council of America, was formed by 1956. The Citizens' Council received its revenue from membership dues and grants from the publicly-funded Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, an agency that promoted segregation and investigated the activities of civil rights groups. The Citizens' Council officially eschewed violence as a strategy, although many Council members privately condoned the violent tactics used by the Ku Klux Klan. The Council was active for more than a decade, but began to lose some of its influence by the late-1960s. Collection comprises Association of Citizen's Councils' position statements, directives, articles, and handbills on the subjects of voting rights, school integration, civil rights protests, infiltration of the Southern Civil Rights movement by Communists, and segregation. Reprinted newspaper articles from newspapers across the country comprise the majority of the material. There are also requests for funding and assistance in influencing politicians. There are handbills with quotations, position statement, cartoons, and editorial photographs. Some of the material is from the national Citizens' Council, and some is printed by Lawrence Printing Company of Greenwood, Miss.

Websites with information:

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/880720420

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/880720420

http://www.worldcat.org/title/association-of-citizens-councils-of-mississippi-records-1961-1967-and-undated/oclc/880720420

[0205] James B. Aswell Family Papers, 1892-1959 (bulk 1909-1931), Mss. 1408, 1426, 1468, 1483, 1620, 1621

Location: Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University Libraries, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. 70803-3300

Description: James B. Aswell (1869-1931) was a politician and educator from Natchitoches, La. Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, speeches, and other related items pertain principally to Aswell's political career and Louisiana politics; World War I; and post-war European conditions. Other topics include the Ku Klux Klan. Notable individuals mentioned include Huey Long and Herbert Hoover.

Websites with information:

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/research/msg.php?display=single&q=Politics

Finding aids:

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/1408.pdf

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/politicalpapers/r1408m.inv.pdf

[0206] Atlanta Jewish Federation Records, 1906-1980, Mss 82

Location: The Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309

Description: The Atlanta Jewish Federation was formally incorporated in 1967 and is the result of the merger of the Atlanta Federation for Jewish Social Service founded in 1905 as the Federation of Jewish Charities; the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation founded in 1936 as the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund; and the Atlanta Jewish Community Council founded in 1945. Over the years the Federation operated the majority of the social service functions within the Jewish community of Atlanta. The records consist of minutes, reports, correspondence, administrative files, and scrapbooks. Files on American Nazi Party - George Lincoln Rockwell, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism - propaganda - Israel Cohen, October Bombing - The Temple, Bombings - general, Christian Anti-Jewish Party, Upton Close, Columbians, Communism, Crusade for Freedom, Desegregation - Atlanta Public Schools, Benjamin Franklin and the Pickney Diary, Ku Klux Klan, McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, Mental Health, Nazism, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Right wing movements - John Birch Society, Segregation, States' Rights Council of Georgia, and White Citizens Council.