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

Congress of Michigan was organized in 1935 as the Conference for the Protection of Civil Rights. The Conference opposed, among other things, the Black Legion and the Ku Klux Klan, fascism, and discrimination. About 1938 the name of the group was changed to the Civil Rights Federation. From 1941 the group attacked the Dies Committee, the Mundt-Nixon Bills, and the Smith Act. About 1945 the name of the organization changed to the Civil Rights Congress. They dissolved in 1955. Correspondents include Charles Beard and Granville Hicks. Part 1, Series II, Black Legion - KKK, 1936-1952, contains files on Black Legion, KKK, and KKK - United Sons of America. Series III, Fascism, 1933-1947, contains files on America First Committee, American Legion, American Mothers, Anglo-Saxon Federation, Anti-Communist Propaganda, Anti-Nazi Activity, Axis radio, Senator Bilbo, John Bugas, Father Coughlin, Father Coughlin - Social Justice, The Cross and The Flag, Leo Donnelly, Fascism, Fifth Column, Hamilton Fish, Hamilton Fish (George Hill trial), Friends of Democracy, German-American Bund, Adolf Hitler, Clare Hoffman, Industrial Legion of America, Charles Lindbergh, National Workers League, Native Fascist Organizations, Nazi Germany, Nazi spies, Nazis in United States, Nazi propaganda, Pegler, G.L.K. Smith, Harvey Springer, George Viereck, Professor Van Moltke case, Louis B. Ward, Gerald B. Winrod, Anti-Nazi Bulletin, The Fundamentalist, Germany Today, The Hour, Social Justice, and Henry Ford. Series IV, Un-American Activities, 1935-1955, contains files on Communism, Communist Party, Harry Dexter White, Dies Committee, McCarran Bill, Mundt Bills, Mundt Nixon bill, Loyalty, McCarthy, McCarthy Book burning, Red Baiting, Smith Bill - HR 5138 - 1940, Smith Act, and un-American Activities Committee. Series VII, Discrimination, 1932-1954, contains files on Anti-lynching, Anti Semitism, Discrimination - Negro, Restrictive Covenants, Anti Lynching Bill, Hobbs Concentration camp bill - 1941, McCarran Act, Anti Poll Tax Bill, and Detroit Riots - 1943. Part 2. Series XIII. Civil Rights Issues, 1933-1963, contains files on Discrimination, Anti-Semitism; Discrimination, Black Legion; Discrimination, Racial; Discrimination, Poll Tax Bill; Mundt-Nixon Bill; and Smith Act.

      Websites with information:

      http://reuther.wayne.edu/node/3144

      http://reuther.wayne.edu/guides.html

      http://reuther.wayne.edu/pdf/1984_newsletter_v5.2.pdf

      https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/32321154

      http://www.worldcat.org/title/civil-rights-congress-of-michigan-records-1933-1963/oclc/32321154

      Finding aid:

      http://reuther.wayne.edu/files/UR000304.pdf

      [0570] Civil Rights Database, Archives & Special Collections [online database]

      Location: Valdosta State University, 1500 N. Patterson St., Valdosta, GA 31698

      Description: The Civil Rights Database is an index of the Southern Patriot, a progressive southern newspaper that ran from 1942-1973 out of South Carolina. The newspaper supported and advocated desegregation before and after the Civil Rights Movement. Topics include American Independent Party, anti-lynching legislation, anti-communism, anti-labor, anti-union laws, apartheid, Association of Wallace Voters, Citizens Council, Citizens Against Busing, civil rights, William M. Colmer, Communism, Kent Courtney, cross burning, desegregation, Dirksen Amendment, James O. Eastland, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Equal Educational Opportunities Bill (anti-busing bill) (92-HR-13915: To further the achievement of equal educational opportunities), Florida HB 74 (right-to-work legislation), House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), integration, John Birch Society, John Kasper, Ku Klux Klan, lynching, Joe McCarthy, McCarthyism, Lester Maddox, James Meredith, Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, Leander H. Perez, Herbert Philbrick, poll tax, race relations, race-baiting, racism, Right-to-work law, right wing politics, right wing press, Phyllis Schlafly, school integration, Dan Smoot, John Stennis, school busing, school integration, segregation, Taft-Hartley Act, George Wallace, Lurleen Wallace, and John Bell Williams.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.valdosta.edu/academics/library/depts/archives-and-special-collections/finding-aids/welcome.php

      Database search engine:

      http://archives.valdosta.edu/research/civilrightssearch.shtml

      [0571] The Civil Rights Digital Library [digital collection]

      Location: Digital Library of Georgia, University of Georgia Libraries, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-1641

      Description: The Civil Rights Digital Library features a collection of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives held by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries. In addition to the news film, the digital library includes related collections from 75 libraries, archives, and museums across the nation. Most are original documentation of the period, such as oral histories, letters, diaries, FBI files, and photographs. Among the 261 collections are Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library (0226); Clinton High School Desegregation from the Knoxville Journal Collection (0598); Eyes on the Prize Interviews (0936); Los Angeles Daily News Negatives, 1925-1954 (1755); Series 2515: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Folders (1934); Series 2515: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (1934); Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing Collection (2673); Southern Courier: A Weekly Newspaper Covering Civil Rights in the South, 1965-68; Southern School News, Volume 1, Issue 1 (September 1954)-Volume 11, Issue 12 (June 1965) (139 items); and Stetson Kennedy Papers (1492). Items include a WSB-TV newsfilm clip of governor Marvin Griffin addressing the General Assembly on segregation and keeping public schools open, Atlanta, Georgia, 1956; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Edward R. Fields, Macon, Georgia, 1960s; a Barnett Bumper Sticker; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission reports and correspondence; a letter from Erle Johnston, Jr., to Northern newspaper editors, 1969; and the following pamphlets: Review of Black Monday, by Thomas P. Brady, October 28, 1954; Interposition or nullification, by M. M. McGowan (n.d. [1954]); Lawyer challenges the U. S. Supreme Court, by Hugh V. Wall, June 23, 1955; We've reached era of judicial tyranny, by James O. Eastland, December 1, 1955 [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/manu/id/1896]; Interposition, the barrier against tyranny, by John Bell Williams, January 25, 1956; Educational fund of the Citizens' Council (n.d. [1956]); Mixed schools and mixed blood, by Herbert Ravenel Sass (1956); Congressman James C. Davis speaks to the States' Rights Council, by James C. Davis, November 28, 1956; Trickery, treachery, tyranny and treason in Washington, by Joseph P. Kamp, April 1957; Segregation is constitutional but compulsory integration is unconstitutional, by W. L. Eason (n.d. [1958]); Are you aware of the planned Negro invasion? (1959); Mississippi State Junior Chamber of Commerce. Oxford: a warning for Americans, October 1962; Blueprint for Total Federal Regimentation: Analysis of the Civil Rights Act 1963, by Loyd Wright and John C. Satterfield (Washington, D.C., The Co-ordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms, 1963) [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/manu/id/494/rec/1]; Attitudes in Mississippi, by Erle Johnston (1967); and Jewish view on segregation ([n.d.]) [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/­compoundobject/collection/manu/id/1948].

      List of collections:

      http://crdl.usg.edu/collections/

      http://crdl.usg.edu/collections/?Welcome

      Finding aids:

      http://crdl.usg.edu/

      http://crdl.usg.edu/export/html/usm/crmda/crdl_usm_crmda_eej010.html

      [0572] Civil Rights During the Eisenhower Administration, Part 1: White House Central Files. Series A: School Desegregation (Bethesda, MD, A UPA Collection from LexisNexis, 2006) [microfilm]

      Description: The documents reproduced in this publication are from the Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower in the custody of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, National Archives and Records Administration. Contains material on the crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas, where Governor Orval E. Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine black children from entering Central High School; the Faubus decision to close Little Rock public schools in the fall of 1958, rather than allow them to integrate, as well as their reopening and permanent integration in 1959. Also contains material on the integration