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

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

      Finding aid:

      http://collections.ohiohistory.org/starweb/l.skca-catalog/servlet.starweb

      [0332] B'nai B'rith Canada Fonds, MG28-V133

      Location: Social and Cultural Archives, Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0N4, Canada

      Description: In 1875, the first Canadian B'nai B'rith lodge was founded in Toronto. In 1982, the order became known as B'nai B'rith Canada. B'nai B'rith Canada is headquartered in Toronto and maintains regional offices in Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg and Edmonton. The series Right Wing Extremists has files on hate literature concerning International Jewish Conspiracy: booklets, pamphlets and flyers n.d., 1956; hate literature: pamphlets and flyers concerning International Jewish Conspiracy 1965-1968; Ivan Petrov, Committee Russian Slaves of Jewish Communism: booklets and pamphlets concerning International Jewish Conspiracy, ca. 1969, 1975; Ku Klux Klan: flyers, newsclippings, pamphlets and Imperial Nighthawk newspaper, 2 issues 1964-1981; Christian Educational Association, Common Sense (United States): newspaper, 15 issues 1965-1966, 17 issues 1966, and 13 issues 1967-1970; Vilne Slovo (Free World): Ukrainian Canadian newspaper, 25 May 1968; Christian Nationalist Crusade, The Cross and the Flag, 4 issues 1968; National Christian Church, National Christian News: newspaper, 3 issues 1968; United Klans of America: flyers and the Fiery Cross Magazine (July 1968) n.d., 1968; Extreme Right Wing Groups including Minutemen and Coalition of Extreme Right Wing Groups in Britain: memorandum and newsclippings 1968; Ernst Zündel, the Western Unity Movement and hate propaganda: miscellaneous 1968, 1987; Leo Tremblay, Christian Nationalist Party: memoranda, newsclippings, and articles with anti-Semitic overtones 1969; Edmund Burke Society: correspondence, flyers, brochures and newsclippings 1968-1970; Edmund Burke Society, Straight Talk, bulletin, 12 issues 1969-1970; Harold Levy, ADL Basic Documents: A Preliminary Report on the Edmund Burke Society, 22 pp. ca. 1970; Anti-Defamation League, District No. 22 and ADL (United States): memoranda concerning John Birch Society 1967-1970; John Birch Society, Institute for American Democracy, Homefront, newsbulletin, 4 issues 1970-1972; ADL (United States) and National Jewish Community Relations Council (NJCRC): Gary Allen, "An Analysis of None Dare Call It Conspiracy", paperback distributed by John Birch Society 1972; and B'nai B'rith Canada, The Lyndon LaRouche Network: The Canadian Connection [online at http://larouche-danger.com/html/­larouche_network_canada.html] and correspondence 1987. The series Neo-Nazi Groups has files on National States Rights Party, The Thunderbolt: The White Man's Viewpoint: 8 issues, excerpts and correspondence 1963-1972; Spearhead, British Neo-Nazi newspaper, No. 1 1964; Anti-Defamation League (United States): correspondence and memoranda concerning Neo-Nazi telephone recorded messages 1965; Rabbi Gunther Plaut, "Neo Nazis--How Neo, How Nazi?": unpublished article 1966; Anti-Defamation League (United States): memoranda concerning George Rockwell and the American Nazi Party (Chicago) 1966; Martin Weiche and John Beattie, Canadian National Socialist Party (Neo-Nazi), London, Ontario: correspondence, flyers, Proclamation of Party n.d., 1965-1970; John Beattie, Canadian Nazi Party: memoranda, newsclippings and a MacLean's article 1966-1968; John Beattie, Neo-Nazi, Allan Gardens Rally: memoranda and newsclippings 1968; John Beattie-Bell Canada affair, "Dial-A-Nazi" telephone recordings: correspondence, minutes of meetings, transcripts 1968-1969; John Beattie-Bell Canada affair, "Dial-A-Nazi" telephone recordings: correspondence, minutes of meetings, transcripts 1969; Ontario Provincial Court Case Involving John Beattie, Neo-Nazi: correspondence and law reports 1969; Newsclippings concerning Canadian Neo-Nazis and B'nai B'rith 1967-1968, 1970; Anti-Defamation League (United States): memoranda concerning Neo-Nazis 1968, 1979; National States Rights Party: membership applications and bulletins 1966-1968; Anti-Defamation League, District No. 22: memoranda concerning Le Mouvement Celtique 1968; and Anti-Defamation League (United States): memoranda concerning West Germany's extreme right-wing National Democratic Party, 1969.

      Finding aid:

      http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000392.pdf

      [0333] Board of Deputies: Defence Committee Papers, 1933-1960, Document collection: 1658

      Location: Community Security Trust, on loan to the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide, 29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP, England

      Description: The Board of Deputies of British Jews, founded in 1760 as the London Committee of Deputies of British Jews, is the representative body of British Jewry. The Board of Deputies established a Coordinating Committee in July 1936 to harmonise the defence efforts of the Jewish leadership against