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

to foster their views; Interposition: The Barrier Against Tyranny, Speech of Representative John Bell Williams, January 25, 1956, in which Williams maintains the states have the right to declare a decision of the federal government, such as the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, as illegal, invalid, and of no force and effect; Mixed schools and mixed blood, by Herbert Ravenel Sass (1956); Segregation and the South, Address by Judge Tom P. Brady, October 4, 1957, which presents the southern rationale for segregation, and describes African Americans as having an inherent deficiency in mental ability, and a natural indolence; Mid-west hears the South's story: An address by William J. Simmons, February 3, 1958, in which Simmons discusses segregation in the South, compares it to segregation in the Mid-west and in the North, argues segregation is a constitutionally protected right, and maintains the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Urban League are Communist-dominated organizations; South's Just Cause, by W. M. Caskey, April 22, 1961, which presents a defense of States' Rights, and argues the states have a legal right to continue the segregationist way of life; Race relations and civil rights: a southern point of view, an address by William J. Simmons, February 28, 1963, which stresses segregation is a successful system, because it is based on the realization that the races get along best when they are not forced to mingle socially; and A Jewish view on segregation, circa 1950-1960s [online at http://digilib.­usm.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/manu/id/1948]. [Harry P. Gamble, Sr.], Segregation of the White Race must Be Preserved (New Orleans, La., Society for the Preservation of State Government and Racial Integrity, June 1955) [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/manu/id/1785/rec/1].

      Finding aid:

      http://digilib.usm.edu/crmda.php

      [0578] Civil Rights miscellaneous collection, 1937-1969 and undated, MSS. 500

      Location: Manuscripts Division, Special Collections, Mississippi State University Library, 395 Hardy Rd, P.O. Box 5408, Mississippi State, MS 39762-5408

      Description: Broadsides, leaflets, circulars, publications, comics, and other materials documenting Anti-Communism, anti-Semitism, anti-left-wing activities, segregationism, and the American Eugenics Party in the United States.

      Websites with information:

      http://library.msstate.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/fulllist.php

      http://www.lib.msstate.edu/specialcollections/collections/manuscripts/civilrights/

      http://lib.msstate.edu/specialcollections/collections/manuscripts/afam/

      [0579] Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina from the 1950s to the 1970s [digital collection]

      Location: State Archives of North Carolina, 109 E. Jones St., Raleigh, N.C. 27601

      Description: This digital collection contains materials related to the Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina from the 1950s to the 1970s, including letters, speeches, reports, booklets, photographs, news clippings, court records, and proposed legislation. Topics covered include school desegregation and busing, voting rights, and civil rights protests and demonstrations. Includes N.C. House Bills (1955-1956) which tried to preserve racial segregation in public schools even after the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education; North Carolina's Public Schools Face a Crisis (Governor's Committee for the Public School Amendment, 1956), a brochure encouraging North Carolina voters to vote for a constitutional amendment to suspend public schools in order to prevent forced integration; Address by Governor Luther H. Hodges of North Carolina on State-Wide Radio-Television Network, August 8, 1955, on the topic of public schools and segregation, expressing his views opposing racial integration; The Segregation Problem in the Public Schools of North Carolina, Summary of Statements and Actions by Governor Luther H. Hodges, March 25, 1956 (1956); and Assorted Clippings on School Segregation, 1950s -1960s.

      Websites with information:

      http://ncarchives.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/civil-rights-movement-digital-collection/

      Finding aids:

      http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/home/collections/civil-rights

      http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/search/collection/p16062coll17/display/200/order/date/ad/asc

      [0580] Civil Rights Movement scrapbooks. Alabama events, 1950-1969 [digital collection]

      Location: Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203-2794

      Description: Over the years Birmingham Public librarians collected newspaper articles about the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama and arranged them in eight scrapbooks. The articles were clipped from several newspapers including The Birmingham News, Birmingham Post-Herald, and the Montgomery Advertiser. Topics covered include bus segregation ordered halted by Interstate Commerce Commission; Montgomery bus boycott; attempts at school desegregation; Supreme Court rules bus segregation is unconstitutional; and George Wallace defiance.

      Websites with information:

      http://bpldigital.blogspot.com/2010/05/alabama-civil-rights-1950-1969.html

      Finding aid:

      http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm/search/collection/BPLSB02/searchterm/Civil%20Rights%20Movement%

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      [0581] Civil Rights Movement scrapbooks. Mississippi events, 1948-1968 [digital collection]

      Location: Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203-2794

      Description: Over the years Birmingham Public librarians collected newspaper articles about the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi and arranged them in three scrapbooks. The articles were clipped from several newspapers including The Birmingham News, Birmingham Post-Herald, and the Montgomery Advertiser. Topics covered include Governor Ross Barnett bars James H. Meredith from "Ole Miss" and University of Mississippi rioting.

      Websites with information:

      http://bpldigital.blogspot.com/2010/05/mississippi-civil-rights-1948-1968.html

      Finding aid:

      http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm/search/collection/BPLSB02/searchterm/Civil%20Rights%20Moveme

      nt%20scrapbooks.%20Mississippi%20events%20volume/field/title/mode/exact/conn/and/cosuppress/

      [0582] Civil Rights Movement scrapbooks, National events, 1945-1969 [digital collection]

      Location: Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203-2794

      Description: Over the years librarians of the Birmingham Public Library collected newspaper articles about the Civil Rights Movement and arranged them in twelve scrapbooks. The articles were clipped from several newspapers including The Birmingham News, Birmingham Post-Herald, Montgomery Advertiser, and The Tuscaloosa News. Topics covered include Georgia "White Supremacy" Bill; Truman Civil Rights proposals; Southern reaction to Truman proposals; MacArthur speech to Congress; Eisenhower State of the Union Address; racial violence in Tennessee; Kentucky racial problems; bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama ends; Texas defies integration plans; Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas vow to continue segregation; civil rights bill approved; Georgia defies federal integration policy; Little Rock, Arkansas asks halt to integration; Virginia and Arkansas to defy integration; Governor John Patterson of Alabama warns Congress on civil rights; Atlanta, Georgia ordered to form integration plan; racial violence in Little Rock, Arkansas; peaceful integration in North Carolina and Virginia; New Orleans, Louisiana defies integration; racial violence in Greenville, South Carolina; Jacksonville, Florida racial violence; racial violence in New Orleans, Louisiana; Freedom Riders assailed by MacDonald Gallion; U.S. Marshals ordered into Alabama; Freedom Riders linked to Communist Cuba; "Reverse Freedom Riders"; Albany, Georgia racial violence; school desegregation continues throughout the South; federal judge orders University of Mississippi to admit James H. Meredith; Civil Rights Bill of 1963; civil rights murder case in Mississippi [Byron de la Beckwith]; Lester Maddox cafeteria goes out of business; and Birmingham, Alabama bombings.

      Websites with information:

      http://bpldigital.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html