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

Online exhibition:

Enduring Outrage: Editorial Cartoons by HERBLOCK, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/herblock-enduring-outrage/.

Websites with information:

http://findingaids.loc.gov/browse/collections/b

http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/mssfa.html

Finding aids to papers (Manuscript Division, Library of Congress):

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008073

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008073.3

http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2008/ms008073.pdf

Finding aid to digital collection:

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hlb/

[0325] Marshall Bloom Papers, 1950-1999 (bulk 1962-1969)

Location: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Robert Frost Library, Amherst College, PO Box 5000, Amherst, MA 01002-5000

Description: Marshall Bloom (1944-1969) was a journalist, editor and key agent in the development of the alternative press in the United States in the 1960s. In 1966, Bloom was briefly a staff writer for Pace magazine, a publication of Moral Re-Armament, Inc., a conservative organization that Bloom followed from 1966 to 1969. The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, unpublished writings, news clippings, publications, financial records, photographs and other materials that chiefly document Bloom's childhood, education, personal life and work as the founder of Liberation News Service and its larger role in the radical counterculture of the 1960s. Series 2, Writings and Drawings, 1961-1969. Sub-series A. Notes and Manuscripts for Possible Publication, 1965-1969, contains clippings re: right-wing propaganda and American youth, 1966, and articles, drafts of articles, brochures, and clippings on Moral Re-Armament, Inc., 1964-1967.

Reference:

Allen Young, "Liberation News Service: A History," https://web.archive.org/web/20120316084441/http://w

ww.lns-archive.org/histories/LNS-History-by-AllenYoung.htm

Websites with information:

https://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/holdings

Finding aids:

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma1.html

http://infomotions.com/sandbox/liam/pages/ma1.html

[0326] Bloom (AC 1966) Alternative Press Collection, ca. 1967-1992

Location: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Robert Frost Library, Amherst College, PO Box 5000, Amherst, MA 01002-5000

Description: Approximately 3,500 alternative "underground" newspapers published chiefly in the United States, ca. 1967-1989, most originally compiled by Liberation News Service as record copies from its subscribers. Contains copies of Augusta Courier, Christian Beacon, and Christian Crusade Weekly.

Reference:

Allen Young, "Liberation News Service: A History," https://web.archive.org/web/20120316084441/http://ww

w.lns-archive.org/histories/LNS-History-by-AllenYoung.htm.

Websites with information:

https://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/holdings

Finding aids:

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma149.html

http://infomotions.com/sandbox/liam/pages/ma149.html

[0327] Virgil T. Blossom Papers, 1952-1960, MC 1364

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

Description: Papers pertaining to Virgil T. Blossom's career as Superintendent of the Little Rock Public Schools, 1953-1958, especially his role in the desegregation crisis in 1957-58. Blossom (1907-1965) wrote an account of the crisis, published as a series of articles, "The Untold Story of Little Rock," in Saturday Evening Post (May 23-June 27, 1959) and then as a book, It Has Happened Here (1959). Contains files on Integration, Anti-Communism pamphlets, etc., and Segregationist materials, and clippings concerning integration and civil rights.

Websites with information:

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

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

http://uark.libguides.com/content.php?pid=365012&sid=2987680

Finding aid:

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

[0328] Gerald Blum Papers, 1971-2003, AIS.2005.14

Location: ULS Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh Library System, 7500 Thomas Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Description: Gerald (Jerry) Blum, a physicist, is a member of NOW and served as Pennsylvania NOW's state treasurer. The papers of Gerald Blum document the activities of the National Organization for Women (NOW) at the national, state, and local levels. Materials reflect Blum's involvement with South Hills NOW and Pennsylvania NOW and include newsletters, meeting minutes and notes, treasurer's reports, feminist publications and brochures, VHS tapes, audiocassettes, audiotapes, and newspaper clippings. Series IV. Subject Files, contains files on abortion, Civil Rights Restoration Act, ERA, Racism, Right to Work, and Right Wing.

Finding aid:

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=­outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais200514

[0329] B'nai B'rith. Anti-Defamation League. Alabama Regional Office Records, 1945-1979 (bulk 1965-1974)

Location: Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Linn-Henley Research Library, Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203-2794

Description: The records of the Alabama Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, established in Birmingham in 1965, consist of correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and publications that document the League's activities in Alabama. Among the subjects covered in the records are anti-Semitism, Jewish-Christian relations, and the civil rights movement. Of particular interest are forty-one files containing materials gathered by the League in its efforts to monitor the activities of right wing extremist groups in Alabama such as the Ku Klux Klan, the National States' Rights Party, and the John Birch Society. The records also contain a copy of Asa Carter's white supremacist newspaper The Southerner, Vol. I, No. 7 (September-October 1956).

Websites with information:

http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

[0330] B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League Northwest Regional Office Records, circa 1935-1974, Coll. 2045

Location: Special Collections, Allen Library South, Basement, Box 352900, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-2900

Description: ADL's major role is to combat anti-Semitism and to interpret and inform the public about Israel and the Middle East. During the period represented by these records, ADL not only combatted anti-Semitism but also promoted civil rights for blacks. The Pacific Northwest regional office was located in Portland until January 1956, when it was moved to Seattle. Fact Files on John Beaty, Tyler Kent, Count Felix von Luckner, Tom Linder, and Dr. A. U. Michelson. Subject Series on the John Birch Society, Fascism, and fluoridation of water.

Finding aids:

http://digital.lib.washington.edu/findingaids/view?docId=BnaiBrithAntidefamationLeagueNorthwestRegional

Office2045.xml

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv54522/op=fstyle.aspx?t=k&q=

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv54522

[0331] B'nai B'rith. Anti-Defamation League. Ohio-Kentucky Regional Office Records, 1940-1974, MSS 549

Location: The Ohio History Connection, 800 E. 17th Ave., Columbus, OH 43211

Description: Materials from 1940-1974 of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith covering housing legislation, civil rights, policy, education, community relations and discrimination.

Websites with information:

http://ww2.ohiohistory.org/resource/archlib/collections/msscoll/501to750.html

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/6114860

http://www.worldcat.org/title/records-1940-1974/oclc/6114860