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

on James Francis Byrnes; Anti-Lynching; Potsdam Conference; Byrnes, "The Supreme Court Must Be Curbed," U.S. News and World Report, May, 1956 [online at http://clio.lib.­olemiss.edu/cdm/ref/collection/citizens/id/691]; Yalta Conference; Catholicism; Child Labor Law; William Jennings Bryan Dorn; Leo Frank; Huey Long; Olin D. Johnston; Racial Integration; Lynching; MacArthur's Address to Congress, 1951; Robert Reynolds; Richard B. Russell; States' Rights Democratic Conference, Jackson, Mississippi, May 10, 1948; States' Rights Democratic National Convention, Houston, August 1948; Supreme Court Controversy, 1937; Strom Thurmond; and Thomas E. Watson. Copies of The Jeffersonian, Thomson, Georgia, 1915, 1917, with material on the Leo Frank case, anti-Catholicism, and opposition to American entry into World War I. The collection also contains a number of scrapbooks with articles covering such topics as anti-Catholicism, especially in regard to public schools; James F. Byrnes; civil rights and segregation; Georgia politics; South Carolina politics; and Strom Thurmond's 1954 write-in campaign for the Senate.

      Websites with information:

      http://library.clemson.edu/depts/specialcollections/finding-aids/

      Finding aid:

      http://media.clemson.edu/library/special_collections/findingaids/manuscripts/Mss243Brown.pdf

      [0408] Brown v. Board of Education: Virginia Responds (December 29, 2003-July 31, 2004) [online exhibition]

      Location: Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219-8000

      Description: Marking the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down school segregation, Brown v. Board of Education explored Virginia's reaction to the ruling through the letters and petitions of individual citizens and organizations sent to elected officials and through the adoption of the policy of "Massive Resistance." The section Virginians Respond: Library of Virginia Documents, contains documents relating to the Brown decision and Virginia's implementation of Massive Resistance, including a brochure for the Charlottesville Educational Foundation (1959), proposing the construction of segregated schools (see Edward Peeples, "13 known private schools in Virginia established since 1958 to circumvent desegregation" (Jan. 1965), http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/pec/id/647); a flyer, "The Peninsula Citizens' Council [Newport News, Va.] invites you to hear Hon. Henry D. Garnett … Speak on The Supreme Court vs. The Constitution, Sat., Sept. 14 [1957]"; Resolution against the Fourteenth Amendment. Lee-Jackson Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Richmond, to Governor James Lindsay Almond, Richmond, January 31, 1958; and a page from The Doctrine of Interposition. Its History and Application. A Report on Senate Joint Resolution 3, General Assembly of Virginia 1956 and related matters. Committee for Courts of Justice and Senate of Virginia. Richmond: Division of Purchase and Printing, 1957 [full document online at http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilrightstv/documents/images/DoctrineInter­position.pdf].

      Finding aid:

      http://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/brown/index.htm

      [0409] William Hand Browne Collection, 1842-1973, Ms. 11

      Location: Special Collections, The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218

      Description: William Hand Browne (1828-1912) was an author and English professor. Series 7: Family, contains includes copies of The American Eaglet (North Carolina American Party, 1970s), a newsletter edited by Owens Hand Browne, and other tracts in opposition to liberal positions prevalent in the 1960s and early 1970s.

      Websites with information:

      http://old.library.jhu.edu/collections/specialcollections/manuscripts/msregisters/index.html

      http://guides.library.jhu.edu/c.php?g=202582&p=1336245

      Finding aid:

      http://ead.library.jhu.edu/ms011.xml

      [0409a] Browne Popular Culture Library's Periodical Collection

      Location: Browne Popular Culture Library, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403-0001

      Description: Titles include White Power (Ohio White Nationalist Party, Toledo, OH; changed to "Official Newsletter of the American White Nationalist Party," National Headquarters, Toledo, OH, with Vol.1, no.7) and Liberty Letter (Washington, D.C.: Liberty Lobby, [196-] 1975).

      Websites with information:

      http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/pclms33_inv41.html

      [0409b] Herbert Brownell Jr. Papers, 1877-1988

      Location: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, 200 S.E. 4th Street, PO Box 339, Abilene, KS 67410

      Description: Herbert Brownell (1904-1996) was a lawyer, politician, and Attorney General of the United States. Series I: Correspondence. Subseries 1: General Correspondence. 1935 Files, contains files on Frank Gannett and Young Republicans. 1941-1948 Files, contains files on Alfred Kohlberg and William Loeb. 1949-1952 Files, contains files on H.L. Hunt and Harold Stassen. 1953-1957 Files, contains files on American Legion, Taft-Hartley Act, Bricker Amendment, Roy Cohn, Herbert Hoover, Status of Forces agreements, Henry Cabot Lodge, George Malone re foreign trade, Eugene Pulliam, Arthur Radford, Republican National Committee, and Robert A. Taft. 1957-1959 Files, contains a Harvard Law Review article by HB re desegregation and a file on Arthur Radford. 1964-1967 Files, contains files on William Loeb and George Bush. 1968-1988 Files, contains files on Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination; HB interview re Bricker amendment; George Bush; Henry Kissinger & Richard Nixon; John Davis Lodge; William Loeb; and John J. McCloy. Subseries 3: Special Name Correspondence, contains files on Thomas Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Richard M. Nixon. Series II. Campaigns and Politics. Subseries 1. Chronological File, contains files on Citizens for Eisenhower, Communism, Harold Stassen, and H.L. Hunt. Subseries 2: 1948 Campaign Headquarters Correspondence, contains files on Walter Annenberg, Styles Bridges, Albert W. Dilling, Alger Hiss, Bonner Fellers, Jefferson Democrats, Sen. Jenner, and Sen. William F. Knowland. Series III. Government Service. Subseries 1. Attorney General, 1952-57, contains files on Harry Dexter White.

      Finding aid:

      https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/finding_aids/pdf/brownell_herbert_papers.pdf

      [0409c] Orestes Augustus Brownson Papers, 1823-1876, BRO

      Location: University of Notre Dame Archives, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

      Description: Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803-1876) was a philosopher, minister, Catholic convert, and journalist. Correspondence, journal, clippings, and manuscript drafts of books, speeches, articles, and essays, both published and unpublished. Correspondents include John C. Calhoun.

      Finding aids:

      http://archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/html/BRO000.HTM

      http://archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/xml/bro.xml

      [0409d] Broyles Commission Investigation, date unknown; 1945-1955, Accession No. 2013

      Location: Roosevelt University Archives, 430 S. Michigan, Chicago IL 60605

      Description: In 1947 State Senator Paul Broyles (R., Mount Vernon) called for a commission to investigate Communism in Illinois. The state legislature created the Seditious Activities Investigation Commission (Broyles Commission), and in 1949 it requested a series of measures to rid Illinois of Communists, including requiring "non-Communist oaths" from public employees, making the support of Communism a felony, and prohibiting Communists from holding office. J.B. Matthews, a special consultant to the Broyles Commission, went on to be the staff director for Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations. The inquiries lasted into well into the 1950s, with Broyles mainly targeting the University of Chicago and Roosevelt College. Files on Benjamin Gitlow; Hearing of the Seditious Activities Commission, April 1949; J.B. Matthews; and Subversive Groups, Attorney General's List, December 1947.

      References:

      "Projects: Cold War Guide: The Broyles' Bills," http://archives.library.illinois.edu/slcold/researchguides/­col

      dwar/freespeech/broyles.php; "The Red Scare at Roosevelt," RU Archives, November 04, 2013, http://rulibra

      ry.typepad.com/archives/2013/11/the-red-scare-at-roosevelt.html.