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

Newbury St., Boston, Massachusetts 02116

      Description: The Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston, headed by Robert Segal, was established in 1949. The Council was comprised of representatives from central Jewish organizations in the area. The collection contains memoranda, meeting minutes, published articles, news clippings, financial reports, police reports, personnel files, membership lists and correspondence of the Jewish Community Relations Council during its various incarnations as the JCC of Metropolitan Boston. Files on Beatrice Abbott; Einar Åberg; America First Committee; American Party; American Security Council; American Nationalist Committee; American Mercury; American Constitution League; Americans for Constitutional Action; Anglo-Saxon Federation; Antisemitism; Adrien Arcand; George W. Armstrong; Catherine P. Baldwin; Prof. John Beaty; Becker Amendment; Sen. Theodore Bilbo; Frank L. Britton; Brooklyn Tablet; Col. Laurence E. Bunker; Conrad Chapman; Christian Front; Christian Veterans of America; Christian Anti-Jewish Party; Christian American Association; Church League of America; Cinema Educational Guild; Circuit Riders, Inc.; Civil Rights/ Opposition & Racism (Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms, Sen. James O. Eastland, Louise Day Hicks, Ku Klux Klan, David Lawrence, Mantle Club, Arthur C. Marrover, Red Cross: Racial Blood Marking During World War II, Reverse Freedom Riders, John H. Taylor, J. Strom Thurmond); Upton Close; Israel Cohen Hoax; Roy Cohn; Columbians, Inc.; Common Sense; Congress of Freedom; Constitution Party; Fr. Charles E. Coughlin; Counterattack; Countercurrents (anti-extremist periodical); Luigi Criscuolo; John Crommelin; Rev. Edward Lodge Curran; Dayton Independent; George Deatherage; Lawrence Dennis; Elizabeth Dilling; Robert Edmondson; Facts Forum; Fr. Leonard E. Feeney; Rev. James W. Fifield, Jr.; Hamilton Fish; John J. Fleck; Eugene Flitcraft; John T. Flynn; For America; Henry Ford; Fr. Leonard E. Feeney; Benjamin Canards Franklin; Benjamin H. Freedman; Frank E. Gannett; Gentile League, Inc.; Kenneth Goff; Russell S. Goldstein; Green Mountain Rifleman; Countess Rosalind Guardabassi; Gordon Hall; Rev. Billy James Hargis; Merwin K. Hart; Clare Hoffman; Human Events; Haroldson Lafayette Hunt; Edward H. Hunter; John Birch Society; Family & Country New England Rally for God; Major George Racey Jordan; Joseph P. Kamp; Frederick John Kasper; Verne P. Kaub; Tyler Kent; Hubert Kregeloh; Let Freedom Ring; Fulton Lewis, Jr.; Liberty Lobby; Marvin Liebman; Col. Charles Lindbergh; James H. Madole; Homer Maertz; Russell Maguire; Clarence E. Manion; Manion Forum; Conde McGinley, Jr.; Joe McWilliams; Lucille Miller; Minute Women of America; Jozef Mlot-Mroz; Moral Rearmament; General Van Horn Moseley; National Education Program; National Federation of Christian Laymen; John O'Donnell; Dr. Revilo Oliver; Operation Abolition; Patrick Henry Organization (Patrick Henry Press); Patriotic Tract Society; Westbrook Pegler; William Dudley Pelley; Samuel Pettengill; Joseph Pew; W. Bruce Pirnie; Protocols of the Elders of Zion; Sen Robert Rice Reynolds; George Lincoln Rockwell (American Nazi Party); E. Merrill Root; Edward A. Rumely; Porter Sargent; Rabbi Benjamin Schultz; Dr. Fred Schwarz; Suzanne Silvercruys; Gerald L.K. Smith; Edward James Smythe; John Howland Snow; Social Justice; George Sokolsky; Spiritual Mobilization; Rev. Harvey H. Springer; Robert A. Taft; Jack B. Tenney; Rev. Arthur Terminiello; The Broom; Think Weekly; Olov E. Tietzow; United States Day Committee; Gen. Edwin A. Walker; David Walsh; David R. Wang; Agnes Waters; We the People; Frederick Weiss; Margaret Welch; Sen. Burton Wheeler; "White Citizens" Councils; Major Robert H. Williams; Gerald B. Winrod; Felix Wittmer; Women Investors in America, Inc.; Women United; X-Ray; Peter L. Xavier; Young Americans for Freedom; and Allen Zoll.

      Websites with information:

      http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~ajhs_pb~r!!318

      Finding aids:

      http://findingaids.cjh.org/?fnm=BostonJCRC&pnm=AJHS

      http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=252821

      Link to digital collection (requires user name and reference request):

      http://cdm15869.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm

      [0347a] Botnick (A.I. and Fay) Civil Rights Collection, ca. 1819-1993 (bulk 1960s–1990s), Collection Number: M338

      Location: Special Collections, The University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive #5148, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5148

      Description: Adolph (A.I.) Botnick (1924-1995) was director of the Anti-Defamation League's South Central Regional Office in New Orleans and a civil rights activist in the Mississippi and Louisiana area. The collection consists of newspaper articles, periodicals, bumper stickers, a photograph, and various personal memorabilia documenting anti-Semitism and civil rights issues in Mississippi and Louisiana. Includes articles relating to Byron de la Beckwith, 1973-1993; civil rights articles by Jack Nelson, 1968-1993; The Truth At Last, Number 332, ca. 1989; Christian Voters and Buyers League Long-Playing Records, Decatur, Georgia, ca. 1960s; and KKK Rubber Squeeze Toy, ca. 1960s.

      Finding aid:

      http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m338.htm

      [0348] Fondo Giuseppe Bottai, 1903-1992

      Location: Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori, via Riccione 8, 20156 Milano, Italy

      Description: Giuseppe Bottai (1895-1959) was a journalist and editor of Critica fascista and other journals. The archive consists of personal diaries; speeches in the House and Senate; personal and family correspondence; and photographs from 1903 to 1958. Series 2. Carriera Politico - Militare e Letteraria, contains correspondence with Olivia Rossetti Agresti, Riccardo Del Giudice, Curzio Malaparte, Fernando Mezzasoma, Benito Mussolini, Gioacchino Nicoletti, Giovanni Papini, Alessandro Pavolini, Camillo Pellizzi, Concetto Pettinato, Giorgio Pini, Boris de Rachewiltz, Ugo Spirito, Fulvio Suvich, Giambattista Vicari, and Gioacchino Volpe. Series 4. Carteggio, contains correspondence with Galeazzo Ciano, Benedetto Croce, Riccardo Del Giudice, Giulio Evola, Roberto Farinacci, Giovanni Gentile, Ezio Maria Gray, Curzio Malaparte, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Benito Mussolini, Sergio Panunzio, Giovanni Papini, Camillo Pellizzi, Giorgio Pini, Giuseppe Prezzolini, Bruno Spampanato, Ugo Spirito, Augusto Turati, and Gioacchino Volpe.

      Note: Copies of part of the archive (1928-1965) are held at the Fondazione Ugo Spirito e Renzo de Felice (http://www.fondazionespirito.it/bottai.asp).

      Websites with information:

      http://www.fondazionemondadori.it/cms/conservazione/163/

      Finding aid:

      http://www.fondazionemondadori.it/bottai/

      [0349] Clarence A. Bottolfsen Papers, 1926-1964, Manuscript Group 11

      Location: Special Collections & Archives, University of Idaho Library, 875 Perimeter Drive MS 2350, Moscow, ID 83844-2350

      Description: Clarence A. Bottolfsen (1891-1964) was elected to two terms as governor of Idaho. Series I. Speeches, 1926-1961, contains an undated anti-Roosevelt speech; an undated speech on Communism; an anti-New Deal speech, October 1944; a copy of Alphabetical agencies created under the Roosevelt New Deal Party, by E.M. Biggers (Houston, Texas, Biggers Printing Company, 1932); a mimeograph copy of a letter sent by H.P. Fulmer to E.M. Biggers, with Biggers' reply; Samuel B. Pettengill, Release no. 602. Who will write the peace? September 26, 1944; and Samuel B. Pettengill, Release no. 603. No ceiling on Americans, September 28, 1944. Series V. History, contains a copy of Petition to members of the seventy-eighth congress of the United States for the redress of grievances suffered by my son, Tyler Kent..., by Ann H.P. Kent. October 1, 1944. Series VIII. Miscellaneous, contains a box of newspapers and newspaper clippings on Americanism, Anti-communist and Politics, and a copy of Communism's threat to religion, by Anselem M. Keefe (Indianapolis, Ind., Constitutional Protective League, n.d.). Series XII. Scrapbooks, contains articles from Free Enterprise and Samuel B. Pettengill's news letters.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/searchall.html

      http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Manuscripts/

      Finding aids:

      http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Manuscripts/mg011.htm

      http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv63274

      [0350] Lemuel R. Boulware Papers, circa 1917-1990, Ms. Coll. 52

      Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts,