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

Communist Infiltration: Education, Federal Government, News Media, William T. Couch, Council Against Communist Aggression, Lucille Cardin Crain, Doenitz Release from Spandau, Educational Reviewer (Lucille Cardin Crain), Bonner Fellers, For America (Bonner Fellers), Foundation for Economic Education, Freedoms Foundation, Devin A. Garrity, J. H. Gipson, Barry Goldwater, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Herbert Hoover, House Un-American Activities Committee, Human Events, William E. Jenner, Jews, John Birch Society, Walter H. Judd, Willmoore Kendall, Russell Kirk, William F. Knowland, Alfred Kohlberg, Eugene Lyons, Douglas MacArthur, George W. Malone, J. B. Matthews, Pat McCarran, Joseph R. McCarthy, Robert R. McCormick, Modern Age, National Review, B. Carroll Reece, Henry Regnery, George Washington Robnett, Archibald Roosevelt, Robert A. Taft, Mrs. Garvin E. ("Bazy") Tankersley, John J. Theobald, Strom Thurmond, Walter Trohan, Freda Utley, Harold H. Velde, Francis E. Walter, Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., Charles A. Willoughby, Robert E. Wood, Yalta, and Young Americans for Freedom.

      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/colegrove.html

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

      [0612a] J.P. Coleman collection, 1949-1985, MSS.381

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

      Description: Speeches, public statements, clippings, campaign advertisements, government documents, scrapbooks, oral history interviews, M.A. thesis and seminar paper, concerning the public career of J. P. Coleman, Mississippi governor (1956-1960) and judge of U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Included is a copy of letter from Sam Ervin. Names include Ross Barnett, Theodore Bilbo, James O. Eastland, Medgar Evers, Carroll Gartin, Paul B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Meredith, Walter Sillers, and John C. Stennis. Subjects include Civil Rights Movement, Constitution, Democratic Party, Race Relations, and University of Mississippi.

      Finding aid:

      http://library.msstate.edu/FindingAid/J.P._Coleman_collection_finding_aid_MSS.381.pdf

      [0613] J. P. Coleman Papers, ca. 1930s-1960s, Z 1877.000 S

      Location: Archives and Library Division, William F. Winter Archives and History Building, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 200 North Street, Jackson, MS 39201

      Description: James Plemon Coleman (1914-1990) was elected governor of Mississippi in 1955 in the wake of the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision of the United States Supreme Court and its mandate for racial integration of public schools. In 1957, Coleman insisted that all legal remedies at his disposal would be used to maintain segregation, and he urged the public not to provoke racial disturbances that would prompt President Eisenhower to send federal troops to Mississippi. Throughout his administration, the Citizens' Council, including one of its leaders Judge Tom P. Brady, publicly criticized Coleman for his moderate views on race. In 1965, he won confirmation as judge on the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, where he served for nineteen years. This collection contains the incoming and outgoing correspondence and other papers and records documenting J. P. Coleman's tenure as district attorney of the Fifth Circuit Court District of Mississippi (elected 1939); circuit judge of the Fifth Circuit Court District of Mississippi (elected 1946); Mississippi Supreme Court justice in September 1950; attorney general of Mississippi from October 1950 to January 1956; and governor of Mississippi from January 1956 to January 1960. Correspondents include Senator John C. Stennis and Congressman Jamie L. Whitten. Also included are letters concerning the Dixiecrat movement and states' rights issues, and files on the lynching of Emmett Till near Money in 1955.

      Reference:

      Anders Walker, The Ghost of Jim Crow: How Southern Moderates Used Brown v. Board of Education to Stall Civil Rights (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

      Websites with information:

      http://mdah.state.ms.us/manuscripts/?C=S;O=D

      http://mdah.state.ms.us/manuscripts/index.html%3fC=S%3bO=D

      Finding aid:

      http://mdah.state.ms.us/manuscripts/z1877.html

      [0614] Collected Magazine Articles About Huey Pierce Long, 1932-1941, RG 300

      Location: Louisiana State Museum Historical Center, 400 Esplanade Ave., New Orleans, LA 70116

      Description: Huey P. Long (1893-1935) was a Louisiana politician and lawyer who served as governor of the state from 1928 to 1932, and as a U.S. Senator from 1932 to 1935. This collection houses magazine articles about Huey Long from various publications including American Mercury, New Outlook, American Magazine, Atlanta, Collier's, Real America, Plain Talk, Liberty, Harper's, Time, Life, Famous Detective, and Saturday Evening Post.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.crt.state.la.us/louisiana-state-museum/collections/historical-center/manuscript-collections/finding-aids/index

      http://www.crt.state.la.us/Assets/Museum/collections/historiccenter/manuscripts/LHC_collectionsb.pdf

      Finding aid:

      http://www.crt.state.la.us/Assets/Museum/collections/historiccenter/manuscripts/RG_300.pdf

      [0614a] Collection of alternative student newspapers at Purdue University, 1942-2008, MSP 99, OS M 1

      Location: Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections, Research Center, Purdue University Libraries, 504 West State Street, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2058

      Description: Student newspapers documenting various aspects of life at Purdue University, including countercultural movements. Series 1. 1. Underground and Political Student Newspapers, 1942-2008, contains 12 issues of the Purdue Review, which was distributed by the University Conservative Action Network. The Purdue Review featured primarily news and conservative commentary on current events.

      Finding aid:

      http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/fa/pdf/msp99_student.pdf

      [0614b] A collection of American right wing publications and periodicals, chiefly published by Liberty & Property, Inc., 1955-1960

      Location: Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, 128 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8240

      Description: The collection consists of a quarto volume containing various publications bound together. The bulk of the collection is a full run of Right: A Monthly Bulletin of, by, and for the American Right Wing (No. 1 (October 1955)-No. 60 (September 1960)), a newsletter published by Liberty & Property, Inc. of San Francisco. Issues discuss such topics as William F. Buckley's National Review, Robert LeFevre's Freedom School in Colorado Springs, and the addition of fluoride into the public water supply. Contributors include Austin J. App, Byram Campbell, Willis A. Carto, Robert Kuttner, Lambert Schuyler, and Glenn O. Young. Also included are copies of The first national directory of "Rightist" groups, publications and some individuals in the United States (and some foreign countries) (3rd ed. San Francisco: Liberty and Property, 1957) with a 1960 typescript addendum of "Additions to the Directory"; 10 numbered tracts of excerpts from "Right" titled "From Right Newsletter" (San Francisco, Calif.: "Right"); The hybrid race doctrine: a critical analysis of some teachings of modern anthropology, by Bela Hubbard (San Francisco: Liberty and Property, [195-?]); and A three-part essay on cultural dynamics: with introductory comments on the philosophy of evolutionary ethics (Evotism) and a bibliography, by E. L. Anderson, Ph.D. [pseudonym of Willis A. Carto] (Sausalito, Calif.: Published by the League for Cultural Dynamics), containing reprints of articles which first appeared in "Right."

      Reference:

      David J. Gary, "A Grassroots View of the American Right, 1955-1960," Manuscripts and Archives Blog, November 13, 2014, http://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/a-grassroots-view-of-the-american-right-1955-1960/.