Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives

[0016] June N. Adamson Papers, 1870-2003 (bulk 1943-2003), MS.2739

Location: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library, 121 John C. Hodges Library, 1015 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996-1000

Description: June N. Adamson (1922-2009) was a newspaper reporter, student, and University of Tennessee Professor of Journalism. This collection contains correspondence, research and teaching files, student work, articles, newspaper clippings, notes, and manuscripts. Included is research related to Adamson's unpublished book The Lit Stick of Dynamite, which documents the desegregation of Clinton (Tennessee) High School in 1956 and its bombing in 1958. Adamson's extensive research for this work includes newspaper clippings, photographs, redacted FBI files on the bombing and on John Frederick Kasper (who organized a White Citizens' Council in Clinton), and taped interviews with various participants. There are files on Admiral John Crommelin, Citizens' Councils, Ezra Pound, John Kasper, Ku Klux Klan, Judge Robert L. Taylor, and the Edward R. Murrow program "Clinton and the Law," aired on CBS on January 6, 1957.

Reference:

Jane S. Row, "Breaking the Gender Barrier: June Adamson," The Library Development Review (University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, Tennessee) (2009-2010), pp. 2-4, http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_lib­devel/103 and https://ww

w.academia.edu/500202/On_the_White_Right_Christian_Side_of_Every_Issue_­The_Life_and_Death_of_Byron_de_la_Be

ckwith.

Websites with information:

http://libguides.utk.edu/c.php?g=188664&p=1245273

http://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=2077

Finding aids:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100628002316/

http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/f/fa/fulltext/2739.html

http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/spc/view?docId=ead/0012_001145_000000_0000/0012_001145_000000_0000.xml

[0017] Lee J. Adamson Papers, 1954-1969, Coll. 086

Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Knight Library, 2nd floor North, Mail: UO Libraries--SPC, 1299 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1299

Description: Adamson was a Washington certified accountant, conservative activist, speaker, and writer. He was a member of Americans for Constitutional Action and the John Birch Society. His writings include a periodic commentary about national and international affairs titled "Liberty Line," which was published in Rank and File (Portland, OR), and editorials for newspapers and journals. Much of the correspondence is also about conservative and anti-Communist individuals and activities. Some of the persons and organizations represented are Bryton Barron, the Church League of America, Pedro A. del Valle, William E. Fort, Jr., Housewives Organized for Better Living, the John Birch Society, Mothers' Crusade for Victory Over Communism, Phyllis Schlafly, and Robert Welch. The papers also contain about 1,000 articles and essays by Adamson, including the "Liberty Line" commentaries, and numerous writings by others. Speeches and Writings by Morris A. Bealle, A. G. Blazey, Eric D. Butler, Christian Crusade, John De Courcy, Martin Dies, Barry Goldwater, Ashley E. Holden, J. Edgar Hoover, Craig Hosmer, T. Robert Ingram, Hatley Norton Mason, J. B. Matthews, Manuel and Lucille Miller, Jozef Mlot-Mroz, Leonard E. Read, Phyllis Schlafly, SPX Research Associates, W. P. Strube, Jr., The John Birch Society, The Fair Play Committee, R. B. Thieme, Jr., Strom Thurmond, Lawrence Timbers, Edwin A. Walker, and Henry J. Walters. Subject files on A Texan Looks at Lyndon (J. Evetts Haley), American Opinion Speakers Bureau, Anti-Communist Action, Anti-Semitism, Atlantic Union, Berachah Church, Bookmailer News, Eric D. Butler, China (Communist), China (Nationalist), Christian Challenge, Church League of America, Committee of One Million, Communism, Conservatism, Conspiracy, Extremism, Fluoridation, Barry Goldwater, A. G. Heinsohn, Jr., J. Edgar Hoover, House Committee on Un-American Activities, Immigration, Income Tax, T. Robert Ingram, Integration, Intelligence Digest, John Birch Society, Liberty Amendment, Mental health, Metropolitan government, Moral rearmament, National Committee of Christian Laymen, Operation Abolition, Operation Water Moccasin, Race, Archibald E. Roberts, George Lincoln Rockwell, Philippa Schuyler, Segregation, St. Thomas' Episcopal Church (Houston, Texas), The Phoenix Report, The Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation, United Nations, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Vietnam, World Government, and Richard Wurmbrand.

Websites with information:

http://researchguides.uoregon.edu/scua-politics/conservative

http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/nwdalinks.html

http://library.uoregon.edu/tools/blogs/scua/check-out-lee-j-adamson-papers/

http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/guides/conservative.html

http://janus.uoregon.edu/record=b1970574

Finding aids:

http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/print/ark:/80444/xv71491

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv71491

http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv71491

[0017a] Affirmation Vietnam records, 1965-1966, Series No. 81

Location: Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University Archives, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322

Description: Affirmation Vietnam, a student organization in favor of the Vietnam War, was established in December 1965 by a group of Emory University students. In February 1966, the organization staged a rally in support of the war, featuring well-known local and national politicians, at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Atlanta, Ga. The rally included speeches by Secretary of State Dean Rusk (1909-1994), conservative activist Anita Bryant, Georgia Governor Carl Edward Sanders (b. 1925), Georgia's United States Senators Richard Brevard Russell (1897-1971) and Herman Eugene Talmadge (1913-2002), Georgia Congressmen Charles Longstreet Weltner and James Armstrong Mackay (1919-2001), and Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen. The collection consists of the records of Affirmation Vietnam, including a scrapbook, newspaper clippings, progress reports, press releases, and an event program, chiefly related to the rally.

Finding aids:

http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/eua0081affirmationvietnam/

http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/eua0081affirmationvietnam/printable/

[0017b] The Africa Fund records, 1952-2001 (bulk 1979-1997)

Location: Amistad Research Center, Inc., Tilton Hall, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118

Description: The Africa Fund, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, was founded in 1966 by the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). The records cover the era independence movements on the African continent against the British, Dutch, French, German, and Portuguese colonial governments. Series 3: Research, 1952-2001. Sub-Series 2: South Africa, 1956-1998, contains files on Right Wing, 1989-1982, and Right Wing, 1988. Sub-Series 3: South Africa-United States, 1964-1998, contains files on Church Action: Right Wing, 1989-1987 (a copy of The Tragedy of the Children in the South African Liberation Struggle (Costa Mesa, CA: Restore A More Benevolent Order Coalition), undated); Press: Right Wing, 1987-1977 (includes a copy of It's Happening Now 9:8 (San Diego, CA: Morris Cerullo World Evangelism), 1977 August); and Right Wing, 1988-1985 (includes a copy of The Aida Parker Newsletter (Costa Mesa, CA: Restore A More Benevolent Order Coalition), 1988 Spring). Sub-Series 4: Countries, 1958-1999, contains files on Mozambique: U.S. Rightwing; Namibia: AWB (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging); and Namibia: Right Wing, 1991-1981. Sub-Series 7: United States, 1956-2000, contains files on Churches - Right Wing, 1998-1990; Right Wing, 1988; Right Wing, 1984-1967; Right Wing - About My Father's Business, 1986-1980; Right Wing - Church, 1998-1989; Right Wing - Heritage Foundation, 1990-1982; Right Wing - Ministry for Religion & Democracy, 1987-1983; Right Wing - RAMBOC [Restore A More Benevolent Order Coalition], 1988-1987; Newsletter: The Aida Parker Newsletter. Aida Parker Newsletter (Pty) Ltd. Johannesburg 1988; and Right Wing - World Media Association, undated.

Finding aid:

http://amistadresearchcenter.tulane.edu/archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=251

[0018] Africa News Service (Durham, N.C.) Leroy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive, 1952-1998 and undated (bulk 1952-1994), RL.00017

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

Description: Africa News Service (ANS) is a non-profit U. S. news agency founded in 1973. It is a leading information source on Africa in the United States and works in partnership with African news agencies and periodicals to make available current and background materials on all aspects of African life, politics, and culture. The LeRoy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive is an extensive resource file assembled by ANS over the course of two decades in support of its news gathering efforts about Africa-related issues and U.S. foreign policy towards Africa. Newspaper clippings, magazine articles, press releases, newsletters, brochures, and reports comprise the collection. Files on American Security Council, apartheid, John Birch Society, Spruille Braden, Patrick Buchanan, William F. Buckley, Christian Anti Communism Crusade, Roy Cohn, Communism, Jerry Falwell, Foundation for Economic Education, Jesse Helms, Heritage Foundation, Alger Hiss, Jack Kemp, James J. Kilpatrick, Irving Kristol, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), William Langer, Liberty Lobby (Liberty Letter, Rockefeller Record, America First), Lyndon LaRouche, Larry McDonald, North Carolina Ultra Right Wing, Norman Podhoretz, Richard Mellon Scaife, Rev. Robert Schuller, South Africa Police/Right-Wing White Involvement, South Africa Religious Right, South Africa Ultra-Right, Southern Africa Right Wing Groups, J. Strom Thurmond, John Tower, U.S. Right Wing (Klan, Moral Majority, NCPAC), Richard A. Viguerie, George Will, World Right Wing, and Young Americans for Freedom (YAF).

Finding aids:

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/africa/

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/africa.pdf

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/africa/pdf

[0018a] African-American and African Pamphlet Collection, 1905-1979 (bulk 1960s–1970s)

Location: Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries, Hornbake Library, College Park, MD 20742

Description: The African-American and African Pamphlet Collection consists of 20th century materials on African, African-American, and Caribbean culture and literature. Series 3: African-American Culture and History, 1916-1971 and undated, contains copies of Committee on Un-American Activities. Hearings Regarding Communist Infiltration of Minority Groups: Hearings before the HUAC House of Representatives, eighty-first Congress. Pt.1. (1949); and Committee on Un-American Activities. Hearings Regarding Communist Infiltration of Minority Groups (Testimony of Manning Johnson): Hearings before the HUAC, House of Representatives, Pt. 2. (1949). Series 10: Desegregation, 1973-1974 and undated, contains a copy of House Un-American Activities Committee: bulwark of segregation, by Anne Braden (undated) [online at http://www.crmvet.org/info/64_braden_huac-r.pdf]. Series 12: Race Relations and Racism, 1971-1974 and undated, contains a copy of The Biology of the Race Problem, by Wesley Critz George (1962) [online at http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/G/Ge/George_Wesley_Critz_-_The_biology_of_the_race_problem.pdf]. Series 13: Revolutionary and Radical Literature, 1934-1972 and undated, contains copies of Are All White Men Israelites?, by Theodore Fitch (undated) [a book about white supremacy]; Reds Promote Racial War, by Kenneth Goff (1958); Ku Klux Klan, Knights Of The Klan Versus The Knights Of Columbus (undated) [anti-Catholic, with a chapter on the fraudulent Knights of Columbus oath]; and George C. Wallace, Speech At The 11th Annual Christian Crusade Convention, Tulsa, Oklahoma, August 1, 1969 (1969).

Finding aid:

http://digital.lib.umd.edu/archivesum/actions.DisplayEADDoc.do?source=MdU.ead.rare.0001.xml&style=ead

[0018b] African American Vertical Files

Location: Published Materials Division, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, 910 Sumter St., Columbia, S.C. 29208

Description: Topical / Subject Files on Black History (Civil Rights/Minority Issues, Civil Rights Movement, Discrimination, Education/Desegregation, Education/Race Relations, Education/Segregation, Integration, Interracial Marriage, Lynching, Race Relations, Racial Violence/Conflict, Racism in South Carolina, Segregation).

Websites with information:

http://library.sc.edu/socar/vrtcls/

Finding aid:

http://library.sc.edu/socar/vrtcls/AfAmVertical.pdf

[0019] African American Videos [videos]

Location: Media Resources Center, University of California, Berkeley, 245 Moffit Library, Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Description: Films include Clinton and the Law (Civil Rights Movement: Primary Sources, 1957; originally aired on CBS on January 6, 1957) (footage of the Rev. Paul Turner preaching brotherhood and John Kasper expounding his rhetoric of intolerance in Clinton, Tennessee); From Washington: Report on Integration (CBS Reports, 1957); The Other Face of Dixie (CBS Reports, 1962; online at http://www.cbsnews.com/­videos/the-other-face-of-dixie/) (a report on progress in school integration in Clinton, Tennessee; Norfolk, Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; and Little Rock, Arkansas; an interview with Arkansas governor Orval Faubus); Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) (on the crisis over integration of the all-white University of Alabama in June 1963); Kennedy v. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close (1963; re-edited) (President John F. Kennedy and Governor George Wallace during the confrontation over desegregation of Alabama schools); Ku Klux Klan: The Invisible Empire (CBS Reports, 1965) (includes an interview with KKK Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton); Forgotten Fires (1998) (a documentary about the burning of two Afro-American churches near Manning, South Carolina, in June 1995 by Ku Klux Klan members); 4 Little Girls (1998; producer/director, Spike Lee) (on the dynamiting of the 16th St. Baptist Church, Birmingham, Sept. 15, 1963, by the Ku Klux Klan); George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire (2000); Inside the Ku Klux Klan: Faces of Hate (2000) (the leaders of the American Knights of the KKK and the Invisible Empire of the KKK air their views and discuss their efforts to recruit members through rallies, the Internet, and pamphlets); and Briars in the Cottonpatch (2012) (on Koinonia Farm, a small Christian community founded by Clarence Jordan in Southwest Georgia in 1942 where whites and blacks chose to live and work together as equals despite the attacks by segregationalist Georgians).

Finding aid:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/africanamvid2.html

[0020] African Americans and Civil Rights: Subject Clippings Files

Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History, P.O. Box 300100, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Description: Clippings files on Civil Rights, Commission to Preserve the Peace, Desegregation, Integration and Segregation, Poll Tax, Segregation, Southern Poverty Law Center, Sovereignty Commission, and White Citizens' Council.

Websites with information:

http://www.archives.state.al.us/afro/clips.html

[0021] African Film Collection [films]

Location: Special Collections, African Studies Collection, UCT Library, University of Cape Town, Private Bag x 3, Rondebosch 7701, Western Cape, South Africa

Description: Contains a copy of the documentary film Hartseer land: een film over extreme rechts in Zuid-Afrika (My Beloved Country: The Extreme Right in South Africa), directed by Saskia Vredeveld (Amsterdam, Ciné Té Filmproduktie Amsterdam, 1991). By focusing on three specific groups – the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, the Boerestaat Party, and the proponents of the independent white enclave of Orania in the Northern Cape – the film presents a cross-section of their views. These Afrikaners believe that God chose them as the superior race of Africa. Throughout, the followers of these groups present themselves as the preservers of white civilization, fighting to maintain their culture, language and religion, if necessary with force. They would like to re-establish a separate white state – the old "Boer State", now to be called "Orandee", which was destroyed by England in 1902 during the Boer War. Also contains a copy of the BBC programme No Way Back, directed by David Harrison (BBC News & Current Affairs, 1990). Reporter David Dimbleby looks at white right wing reaction to Nelson Mandela's release and subsequent violence. In this programme, representatives of the Conservative Party, the White Transport Union, the AWB and the Oranjewerkers all express their anger at the government's actions.

Websites with information:

http://sabinet.worldcat.org/title/hartseer-land-extreem-rechts-in-zuid-afrika-my-beloved-country-the-extreme-right-in-south-africa/oclc/869779403&referer=brief_results

http://www.saha.org.za/resources/docs/PDF/Publications/AV_Audit_2010.pdf

Finding aid:

http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/asl/films2013.pdf

[0022] Papers of the Afrikaner Party, 1940-1951, PV 51

Location: Archive for Contemporary Affairs, Stef Coetzee Building, Room 109, Academic Avenue South, University of the Free State, 205 Nelson Mandela Drive, Park West, Bloemfontein 9300 South Africa

Description: After the declaration of war in September 1939, Gen. Hertzog and his followers broke away from the United Party and founded the Volks Party. The Volks Party then split up and one section joined the National Party to form the Herenigde [Re-united] National Party while the other section became the Afrikaner Party under the leadership of N.C. Havenga. During the 1948 election the HNP and AP joined forces. In 1951 the two parties amalgamated and became the National Party.

Websites with information:

http://supportservices.ufs.ac.za/content.aspx?id=196

http://supportservices.ufs.ac.za/content.aspx?id=527

http://www.archivalplatform.org/registry/entry/south_african_political_party_archives

Finding aid:

http://supportservices.ufs.ac.za/dl/Userfiles/Documents/00001/1163_eng.pdf

[0022a] The Afro Newspaper Morgue Collections, 1920s-present (bulk 1930s-1970s)

Location: Afro-American Newspapers Archives and Research Center, 2519 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Description: Founded in 1892 by John H. Murphy, Sr., the Afro-American Newspaper, most commonly called the Afro, began publication with the specific mission of documenting the news in the black community of Baltimore City, Maryland. The Afro-American Newspapers Archives and Research Center holds the newspaper's "morgue" files. The photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, brochures, and pamphlets in the AFRO Morgue were collected by reporters and editors at the Afro for use as reference materials. The morgue is made up of more than 155,000 individual folders about people, places, issues, and events. The collection contains as many as million images and provides a rich visual record of African American life in the twentieth century. Files or materials on Ross Barnett, Bryant Bowles, busing, Ace Carter, John Birch Society, John Kasper, Ku Klux Klan, lynchings, school integration, school segregation, and school desegregation.

Websites with information:

https://marylandhcc.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/afro-american-newspapers-archives-and-research-center/

http://morgue.afro.com/AfroArchon/

http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/oltitles.html

[0022b] Louis Agassiz letters and other material, 1847-1896

Location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 346 Main Library (MC-522), 1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois 61801

Description: Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was a professor of natural history, first at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, and later at Harvard University, and the founder of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. Includes 30 letters written by Agassiz.

Websites with information:

http://www.library.illinois.edu/administration/collections/about/special.html

http://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=426

[0023] Philip Agee Papers, 1948-2007 (bulk 1965-2000), TAM.517

Location: Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012

Description: Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (1935-2008) was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and writer, best known as the author of Inside the Company: CIA Diary (1975), which identified about 250 CIA officers, front companies and foreign agents then or previously working for the United States. Agee joined the CIA in 1957, and over the following decade had postings in Washington, D.C., Ecuador, Uruguay, and Mexico. After resigning from the Agency in 1968, he became a leading opponent of CIA practices. Exiled from the U.S., and expelled from Great Britain, he died in Cuba in January 2008. The collection contains: biographical materials, correspondence, datebooks, documents obtained under the FOIA Act, notably CIA documents, as well as FBI and State Department documents; legal materials from various cases in which Agee was the plaintiff; lectures and university teaching files; subject files, many relating to Latin American and other countries and to CIA activity in them, and some relating to his expulsion from Great Britain; published and unpublished writings by Agee; reviews of his work; and other writings about Agee. Series VI, Subject Files. Subseries VI-A, Countries: Latin America and the Caribbean, contains files on Nicaragua: Contras: US Backed Anti Government Guerrilla Group (Clippings) and Nicaragua (The CIA Manual Distributed for Anti-Government Forces in Nicaragua): Distributed by the Center for Constitutional Rights Before the House Committee on Intelligence. Series VI, Subject Files. Subseries VI-D, Individuals, Organizations, Topics, contains files on Council Against Communist Aggression, Washington, DC; Council For Inter-American Security, Washington DC; "Counterspy" Clippings; Covert Action Bulletin; "Gladio-Timewatch" Script by James Jesus Angleton, Head of CIA Counter-Intelligence 1954-1974; Gladio (Operation): Italian Secret Network Anticipating the Soviet Overrunning of the West: Clippings (English, Spanish, Italian); The Heritage Foundation: "To Restore Balance, Freedom of Information and National Security; and Mind Control: Clippings. Series VII, University Lectures, Teaching and Research Files (1948-1999), contains files on "The Extreme Right in Europe in the 1990s:" Lecture (English, German); "The Extreme Right in Europe in the 1990s," Research Materials; "The Extreme Right in the US and Canada in the 1990s:" Lecture (English, German); Italy-Role of P-2, 1994 Elections Neonazism: Reading Assignments; Italy-US Intervention in 1947-1948, 1960s and 1970s, and Gladio Reading Assignments; "Neo-Nazism and Racism in America" Research Materials; "Neo-Nazism in Germany" Research Materials (English); "Neo-Nazism in Germany" Research Materials (German); "Racism, Anti-Semitism, Homophobia:" Reading Assignments; "Racism, Anti-Semitism, Homophobia" Research Materials; "Reinhard Gehlen and Continuation of the German War against the USSR:" Lecture (English, German); "Reinhard Gehlen and Continuation of the German War against the USSR" Reading Assignments; and "Reinhard Gehlen and Continuation of the German War against the USSR:" Research Materials.

Websites with information:

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/fa_index.html

Finding aid:

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_517/tam_517.html

[0024] Agenzia Giornalistica Fotografica (AGF)

Location: Via Salaria 332 - 00199 Roma, Italy

Description: Founded in 1976, the archive consists of more than 2,000,000 images, including photographs relating to Mussolini and fascism.