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

Activities (1957-69), contains files on Arkansas Council on Human Relations, including segregationist response; Louisiana Save Our Schools movement; Women's Emergency Committee To Open Our Schools; and Report: "Little Rock Report: The City, Its People, Its Business, 1957-59," compiled by the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, Aug 1959. Series IV. Subject Files (1947-72), contains files on Little Rock recall election, 1959; School integration controversies in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.; Civil Rights movement and integration; Little Rock, AR - Businesses and segregation, Desegregation proposals; and Segregationism.

      Websites with information:

      https://www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/subjlaw.html

      Finding aids:

      http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss169.html

      http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss169_main.html

      http://infomotions.com/sandbox/liam/pages/mnsss169.html

      [0371] Ralph Owen Brewster Papers, 1909-1962, Coll. M200

      Location: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, 3000 College Station, Brunswick, Maine 04011-8421

      Description: Ralph Owen Brewster (1888-1961) was twice elected governor of Maine (1924 and 1926). He served three terms in the House before winning a U.S. Senate seat, serving from 1941-1952. Defeated in the 1952 primary, he retired but maintained an active interest in conservative organizations. Records are largely office files concerning contemporary issues, events and local and national political and legislative initiatives; and general office correspondence spanning the years 1923-1961. Files on Americans for Constitutional Action, John Bricker (Bricker Amendment), Sen. Styles Bridges, Citizen's Council Forum, Citizens Foreign Aid Committee, Committee of One Million, Communism, Dan Smoot Report, Hon. W.J. Bryan Dorn, Robert B. Dresser, Economic Council Letter, Foundation for Economic Education, Sen. Barry Goldwater, Percy L. Greaves, Jr., Ralph W. Gwinn, Frank C. Hanighen, Clare E. Hoffman, Human Events, Raymond V. Humphreys, Hon. William E. Jenner, Cong. August E. Johansen, Sen. William F. Knowland, Liberty Lobby, Life Lines, Sen. George W. Malone, Manion Forum Network Weekly Broadcasts, Douglas MacArthur, Joseph R. McCarthy, Robert Morris, National Review, Charles Parsons, Pearl Harbor, Hon. B. Carroll Reece, Edward A. Rumely, Robert B. Snowden, Society of the Cincinnati, George E. Sokolsky, Robert Taft, Townsend Plan, Major General C.A. Willoughby, G-2 G.S.C. - Asst. Chief of Staff, Robert E. Wood, and Dr. Manfred Zapp (Germany).

      Websites with information:

      https://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/index.shtml

      http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/subject-guides/politics-and-government-resources/legislative.shtml

      https://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/subject-guides/politics-and-government-resources/legislative.shtml

      Finding aids:

      http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/robg

      https://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/robcl.shtml

      http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/robg.shtml

      http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/robsd.shtml

      [0372] Bricker Amendment: Collection, 1952-1956

      Location: Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, P.O. Box 488, 210 Parkside Drive, West Branch, IA 52358-0488

      Description: Memoranda, reports, speeches, pamphlets, hearings, and notes in support of the passage of the Bricker amendment to the Constitution limiting the scope of U.S. treaties and establishing controls on the powers of the President in negotiations and executive agreements.

      Websites with information:

      https://hoover.archives.gov/research/collections/manuscriptcollections.html

      http://www.ecommcode2.com/hoover/research/historicalmaterials/hmother.html

      Finding aids:

      https://hoover.archives.gov/research/collections/manuscriptfindingaids/bricker.html

      http://www.ecommcode2.com/hoover/research/historicalmaterials/other/bricker.htm

      [0373] John W. Bricker Papers, 1930-1975, MSS 340

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

      Description: John W. Bricker (1893-1986) was attorney general and governor of Ohio and U.S. senator from Ohio. Official correspondence, clippings, and other papers relating to administrative, legislative, and political matters as Governor Bricker's part in the Republican national campaign of 1944, his terms as Senator, the work of Senate committees of which he was a member, the Bricker Amendment, and national and Ohio Republican politics.

      Reference:

      Bernard Lemelin, "Congressman Usher Burdick Of North Dakota and The 'Ungodly Menace': Anti-United Nations Rhetoric, 1950-1958," Great Plains Quarterly, 22 (Summer 2002): 163-81, http://digitalcommons.­unl.edu/cgi/vi

      ewcontent.cgi?article=3323&context=greatplainsquarterly

      Websites with information:

      http://www.ohiohistory.org/collections--archives/manuscript-and-audiovisual/manuscripts/about-the-collecti

      ons/political-papers

      Finding aids:

      http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/ref/collection/aids/id/3798

      http://www.ohiomemory.org/utils/getfile/collection/aids/id/3857/filename/3804.pdfpage/page/1

      [0374] Henry Styles Bridges Papers

      Location: New England College Library, 98 Bridge St, Henniker, NH 03242

      Description: Henry Styles Bridges (1898-1961) was governor of New Hampshire and United States senator from 1936 to 1961. He went to the Senate as a New Deal opponent. The papers contain correspondence from Barry Goldwater and William Loeb, among others.

      Reference:

      Styles Bridges: A Register of His Papers in the New England College Library, prepared by James J. Kiepper ([Henniker, N.H.] New England College Library, 1972).

      [0375] Henry Styles Bridges Papers, 1923-1961

      Location: Archives and Records Management, New Hampshire Department of State, 71 South Fruit Street, Concord, NH 03301

      Description: General correspondence, political files, 190 scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia from his service as governor and U.S. senator. Majority of the collection consists of reprints and secondary material.

      Websites with information:

      http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=b000823

      http://sos.nh.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=47230

      [0376] Joseph B. Bridston Papers, 1937-1961, OGLMC 0053

      Location: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202

      Description: Bridston (1896-1965) established the J.B. Bridston Co. in 1934 and organized First Federal Savings and Loan Association in 1938. Also greatly involved in politics, his political career included terms as a N. D. State Senator (1939-1956), founder of the Republican Organizing Committee, and an unsuccessful U. S. Senatorial campaign (1946). Included are general correspondence, newspaper clippings, campaign material, the text of speeches, and general subject files. Files on Langer Hearings, 1941-1942, Senator Nye, 1944, (William) Langer, 1940-48, Communism, 1958-60, Anti-Communism Material, 1958, and Anti-Communism Material, 1957; and the following documents: Communism in Action: A Documented Study and Analysis of Communism in Operation in the Soviet Union: Prepared under the direction of Representative Everett Dirksen by the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress, 1946; The Red Plotters, by Hamilton Fish, 1947; Report: The Strategy and Tactics of World Communism: Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, 1949; "McCarthy: A Documented Record," The Progressive, April 1954 [online at http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/63472];