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

in 1956 of Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, including the deployment of National Guard troops, the tactics and arrest of agitator Frederick J. Kasper, and the stabilizing actions of principal D. J. Brittain, Jr. Correspondents include Bruce Alger, Byron De La Beckwith, Tom P. Brady, Virginius Dabney, Everett M. Dirksen, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Milton S. Eisenhower, Orval E. Faubus, W. C. George, G. T. Gillespie, Marvin Griffin, Roy V. Harris, David Lawrence, Noah M. Mason, Theodore R. McKeldin, Westbrook Pegler, Leander H. Perez, Samuel B. Pettengill, Carleton Putnam, Maxwell M. Rabb, Fred Schwarz, W. J. Simmons, Dan Smoot, John Sparkman, John Stennis, Herman E. Talmadge, Henry J. Taylor, Strom Thurmond, Kenneth D. Wells, and J. Arthur Younger. Topics include alleged biblical support for segregation; American States' Rights Association; anti-Semitism; anti-integration actions; D. J. Brittain, Jr.; Brown v. Board of Education; Central High School (Little Rock, Arkansas); church bombings; Citizens Councils of America; citizens' councils; Clinton, Tennessee; Communism; desegregation; Orval E. Faubus; House Un-American Activities Committee; integration; Frederick J. Kasper; Ku Klux Klan; Little Rock, Ark., crisis; lynching; miscegenation as "un-American"; mixed marriage ban; NAACP as Communist front; Westbrook Pegler; Carleton Putnam; racial violence; racial discrimination; school desegregation; school bombing; segregation; "Southern Manifesto" (March 12, 1956), opposing desegregation; states' rights; States' Rights Council of Georgia; John Stennis; and Horace V. Wells.

      Finding aids:

      http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets/catalog/101150.pdf

      http://www.roosevelt.nl/sites/zl-roosevelt/files/civil_rights_during_the_eisenhower_administration_­part_1__

      white_house_central_files_series_a__school_deegregation.pdf

      [0573] Civil Rights During the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1963. Part 1: The White House Central Files and Staff Files and the President's Office Files. A collection from the holdings of The John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts (Frederick, Maryland, University Publications of America, Inc., 1986) [microfilm]

      Description: Part 1 of Civil Rights during the Kennedy Administration is drawn from three major record groups found at the John F. Kennedy Library: the White House Central Files (in particular, the Subject File), the White House Staff Files, and the President's Office Files. Names and subjects include anti-poll tax amendments, anti-Semitism, Ross R. Barnett, bombings, civil rights legislation, civil rights, Communism, desegregation, discrimination, Orval E. Faubus, Senator Philip A. Hart, J. Edgar Hoover, integration, Jim Crowism, Curtis E. LeMay, massive resistance, Benjamin Muse, poll tax, pro-segregation groups, race relations, racism, reverse Freedom Riders, school integration, segregated schools, segregation, Senator John Sparkman, Senator Strom Thurmond, University of Mississippi integration, George C. Wallace, and White Citizens' Councils.

      Finding aid:

      http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets/catalog/1348_CivRtsKennedyPt_1.pdf

      [0574] Civil Rights During the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1963. Part 2: The Papers of Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. A collection from the holdings of The John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts (Frederick, Maryland, University Publications of America, Inc., 1986) [microfilm]

      Description: Files on Governor Ross Barnett; Citizens Councils of Louisiana; civil rights; Communist Party (U.S.); desegregation; discrimination; Highlander Folk School; integration; Ku Klux Klan; Lester Maddox; James Meredith; Mississippi File—"Ole Miss" integration; Benjamin Muse; poll tax legislation; poll tax; Racial violence; United States v. Association of Citizens Councils of Louisiana; and Governor George Wallace.

      Finding aid:

      http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets/catalog/1350_CivilRtsJFKAdminPt2.pdf

      [0575] Civil Rights During the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1963. Part 3: The Civil Rights Files of Lee C. White. A collection from the holdings of The John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts (Bethesda, MD, A UPA Collection from LexisNexis, 2007) [microfilm]

      Description: The documents in this microfilm collection were filmed from the Papers of John F. Kennedy, Presidential Papers, White House Staff Files: Lee C. White, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Massachusetts. Subjects include Anti-Poll Tax Amendments; Anticommunism; Christian Crusade; civil rights; Communism and communist parties; Barry Goldwater; John Birch Society; poll tax; racial discrimination; segregation; and states' rights.

      Finding aid:

      http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets/catalog/101773.pdf

      [0576] Civil Rights Greensboro [digital collection]

      Location: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, 222B Jackson Library, P.O. Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402

      Description: Civil Rights Greensboro provides access to archival resources documenting the modern civil rights era in Greensboro, North Carolina, from the 1940s to the early 1980s. Historical materials include correspondence, reports, speeches, photographs, newspaper clippings, and oral histories held at five cultural heritage institutions in North Carolina. Clippings and other materials on the Greensboro Massacre, 1979; American Nazi Party; Harold A. Covington; Ku Klux Klan; and segregation.

      Finding aids:

      http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/CivilRights

      http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/search/collection/CivilRights

      http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/2024

      [0577] Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive [digital collection]

      Location: The University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5053

      Description: The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive includes a selection of digitized photographs, letters, diaries, oral history transcripts, finding aids for manuscript collections, and other documents. Among the 2233 items are the following: a list of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Schedule of payments to the White Citizens Council forum between the years 1960 and 1965; a press release from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, May 26, 1964, identifying organizations involved in statewide opposition to civil rights workers and the Freedom Summer 1964 project, including the Association of Tenth Amendment Conservatives (ATAC), based in Cleveland, Mississippi; the White Citizens councils; the Association for the Preservation of the White Race (APWR); and the Ku Klux Klan; a letter from William J. Simmons to Erle Johnston, Jr., November 18, 1987; photographs of Thomas P. Brady and William J. Simmons; and the following pamphlets: A Review of Black Monday, by Judge Tom P. Brady, October 28, 1954, which stresses the need for segregation among the races to protect the United States from decline as a civilization; A Christian view on segregation, by Rev. G. T. Gillespie, November 4, 1954, in which Gillespie states that racial separation is the way to support racial harmony. He says that Soviet Communists are behind the Civil Rights movement, because they want to break down the barriers between races so that racial amalgamation will occur. He contends that school integration will lead to intermarriage, and he cites Biblical and pseudoscientific reasons that segregation must continue. He also quotes Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Booker T. Washington; Conflicting views on segregation (circa 1955), a pamphlet containing a series of letters from Dr. Dotson McGinnis Nelson, President of Mississippi College, who believes in the segregation of the white and Negro races, and from Tom, an alumnus of the College, who believes in the contrary views; Ugly truth about the NAACP, an address by Attorney General Eugene Cook of Georgia before the 55th Annual Convention of the Peace Officers Association of Georgia, printed by the Citizens' Council, circa 1955, in which Cook alleges that the people who direct and subsidize the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) have records of affinity for, affiliation with, and participation in Communist, Communist-front subversive organizations, activities, and causes; "We've reached era of judicial tyranny," an address by James O. Eastland, December 1, 1955, in which Eastland defends states' rights and segregation in schools, proclaims the integration efforts of such organizations as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Council of Churches of Christ, and the Rockefeller Foundation are Communist-inspired organizations, which use the national media