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

C. Hodges Library, 1015 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996-1000

      Description: Carl Braden (1914-1975) and Anne Braden (1924-2006) were civil rights workers with the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF). The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, news letters, financial records, mailing lists, and court records relating to their work with the SCEF and the civil rights program in general. Files on civil rights, Civil Rights Bill, Civil Rights Legislation, Sen. James O. Eastland - Income and Job Security Committee, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Barry Goldwater, HUAC - House Un-American Activities Committee, Abolition of, HUAC - Anti-HUAC Pamphlets, Highlander Folk School, Koinonia Farm, Americus, Georgia, Ku Klux Klan, Race Relations, SCEF, Attacks on Southern Conference Educational Fund, SCEF, Accused Communist Clippings, Sedition Bill, 1958, and Segregation Propaganda.

      Websites with information:

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

      Finding aid:

      http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/spc/view?docId=ead/0012_000112_000000_0000/0012_000112_000000_0000.xml;query=MS.0425;brand=default

      [0360] Spruille Braden papers, 1903-1977, MS#0143

      Location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Butler Library, 6th Floor, Columbia University, 535 West 114th Street, New York, NY 10027

      Description: Braden (1894-1978) was a diplomat in numerous Latin American countries and was particularly well known for his role as the American Representative to the Chaco Peace Conference, 1935-1939, and for his opposition to the Perón regime in Argentina in the 1940s. Correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, documents, photographs, printed material, and audio visual material, primarily relating to Braden's career as a diplomat. Also included are files from his tenure as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, 1945-1947. The numerous scrapbooks in the collection contain clippings, photographs, and invitations. Series I: Correspondence and Catalogued Items, contains correspondence with James L. Buckley, William F. Buckley, Jr., James F. Byrnes, Dwight David Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Joseph C. Grew, John Edgar Hoover, Arthur Bliss Lane, Ronald Reagan, Edward Rickenbacker, and Robert Welch.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4079451/

      Finding aid:

      http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079451

      [0361] Ralph Bradford Papers, 1943-1978, MS Group 72

      Location: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, 208 Smathers Library, 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611-7005

      Description: Ralph Bradford was a lecturer, writer, and business organization consultant. Includes autograph and typed manuscripts, galley proofs, and published copies of writing by Bradford. The later writings are articles published in The Freeman (1974-78), a libertarian publication of the Foundation for Economic Education (Irving-on-Hudson, NY).

      Websites with information:

      http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/browset.htm

      http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/browseu_ms.htm

      Finding aid:

      http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/guides/Bradford.htm

      [0362] Kenneth Bradley Collection, 1934-1987 (bulk 1934 to 1972), MS 88-29

      Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Wichita State University Libraries, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0068

      Description: Case files from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Department of Justice constitute this collection. The files mainly consist of evidentiary findings concerning Rev. Gerald B. Winrod of Wichita and his activities, including his involvement in the Christian Missionary Alliance. In 1942, Winrod was indicted in a Washington, D.C. District Court for conspiracy to violate the U.S. Code regarding seditious activities. An evangelist, author, publisher and political activist, Winrod and his organization, Defenders of the Christian Faith, promoted his advocacy of anti-Semitism, anti-Communism, anti-Catholicism, racial segregation, creationism, and Prohibition. His magazine The Defender was anti-Semitic, anti-administration, and anti-British. Letters and memos from J. Edgar Hoover. Copies of The Defender Magazine; the Missionary Messenger; Western Voice; The Philip Dru Case, by Gerald Winrod (1952), which tries to prove that all the woes in American politics are due to a Jewish-Communist plot and the U.S. presidents are tools used by the Communists; and Counter Attack, a publication of the National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism. Photocopies of California Weckruf (Los Angeles) and The Defender Magazine. Materials relating to Howard Victor Broenstrupp, Ida Mae Cooper, Lawrence Dennis, Elizabeth Eloise Dilling and her publications "The Red Network" and "The Roosevelt Red Record," Ernest Frederick Elmhurst, E.J. Garner, German American Bund, Adolf Hitler, Dr. Emanuel M. Josephson, William Ernest Kullgren, Fritz Kuhn, Joseph E. McWilliams, Protestant War Veterans, The Revealer, Eugene Nelson Sanctuary, Edward James Smythe, Senator Robert A. Taft, U. S. vs. Gerald B. Winrod et. al., United States vs. McWilliams et. al., George Sylvester Viereck, and Volksbund Fuer Dos Deutschtum in Ausland (People's Society for Germanium Abroad, V. D. A.).

      Reference:

      Seth Bate, "Defending the Defender: Gerald Winrod and the Great Sedition Trial," Fairmount Folio: Journal of History (Wichita State University) 18 (2018): 36-57, http://journals.wichita.edu/index.php/ff/article/viewFile/192/198.

      Websites with information:

      http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/msub-b.html

      http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/mscrcol3.html

      http://ksreligion.omeka.net/items/show/74

      Finding aids:

      http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/pdf/88-29-a.pdf

      http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/88-29/88-29-A.HTML

      [0363] Thomas Brady, Sr. Collection of Conservative Materials, 1940-1962, Coll 404

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

      Description: Thomas A. Brady (1902-1964) was a professor and administrator at the University of Missouri. The collection contains conservative correspondence, pamphlets, and publications sent to Brady by individuals and conservative groups. Groups include the Theocratic Party, The Cuban Newsletter by the Democratic Revolutionary Front, The Church of God, The Protestant War Veterans of the United States, The Vigilantes, Union Research Institute, and the publication Women's Voice.

      Websites with information:

      http://library.uoregon.edu/tools/blogs/scua/newly-available-collection-thomas-brady-sr-collection-of-conservative-materials/

      Finding aid:

      http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv93695

      [0364] Carl P. Brannin Papers, 1904-1987, AR285

      Location: Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library, 702 Planetarium Place, Arlington, Texas 76019-0497

      Description: Brannin (1888-1985), a journalist, was active in politics, labor union organizing, and the civil rights movement. He was a charter member of the American Civil Liberties Union and an organizer of the Dallas Civil Liberties Union. Brannin's papers contain correspondence, minutes, financial records, speeches, newspaper clippings, newsletters, constitutions, reports, rosters, press releases, notes, and miscellaneous printed material. Contains files on Harry Elmer Barnes, J. Edgar Hoover, the House Un-American Activities Committee, the John Birch Society, "Operation Abolition" (an anti-Communist film produced by the House Committee on un-American Activities in 1961), and right-wing groups.

      Finding aids:

      http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utarl/00118/arl-00118.html

      [0364a] Irving Brant Papers, 1910-1977 (bulk 1938-1975), MSS13656

      Location: Manuscript