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

For Freedom publications, Guardpost For Freedom (VFW), Headlines And What's Behind Them, Jews Against Communism, The Lewis-Bruce Report, J.B. Matthews publications, National Council For American Education- Educational Guidelines, Summary of Trends and Developments Exposing the Communist Conspiracy, Spotlight (American Legion), and VFW American Security Reporter. General Files. Series 42. Politics-Left-Wing Infiltration, 1930-1980, contains files on Exposé, Friday, Left-Wing Infiltration in Advertising Circles, Foundations (Fund For the Republic), Television-"Red Channels", 1949-1964, and Church League of America. General Files. Series 43. Politics-Front Organizations & Fellow Travelers, 1935-1980, contains files on Highlander Folk School, Uncensored, Attorney General's List of Communist or Subversive Organizations, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Federated Press, Foreign Policy Assn., Friday, Institute of Pacific Relations, Keep America Out of War Committee, and YMCA & YWCA.

      References:

      A Guide to the Manuscript Collection of the Rutgers University Library. Compiled by Herbert F. Smith (New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Library, Distributed by the Rutgers University Press, 1964), p. 130, https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/41241/PDF/1/; Gregory L. Williams, "Buyer Beware: The Consumers' Research Archives at The Rutgers University Libraries," Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries, Vol. LVII, Nos. 1 and 2 (1995), pp. 25-39, http://reaper64.scc-net.rutgers.edu/journals/index.php/­jrul/article/viewFile/1737/3179.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/scua/manuscripts

      http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/

      https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/manuscripts/manuscripts.shtml

      http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/manuscripts/manuscripts.shtml

      https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/122358315

      http://www.worldcat.org/title/politics-general-files-anti-communism-and-other-movements-1930-1980/oclc/

      122358315

      Finding aids:

      http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_introb.html

      http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_introf.html

      http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_adminb.html

      http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_adminf.html

      http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_gen1b.html

      http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_gen1f.html

      http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_gen2b.html

      http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_gen2f.html

      http://archive.is/QMMm

      [0669a] Silvio O. Conte Congressional Papers, 1950-1991, MS 371

      Location: Special Collections & University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 154 Hicks Way, Amherst, Mass. 01003-9275

      Description: Silvio O. Conte (1921-1991) was Massachusetts State Senator for the Berkshire District, 1950-1958, and representative for Massachusetts's First District in the United States Congress for 17 terms, 1959-1991. The papers reflect his anti-abortion stance while also documenting his major support for federal funding of family planning facilities. There is much correspondence from both pro-choice and anti-abortion lobbyists and family planning center administrators. Subgroup II. Legislative. Series 3. House Appropriations Committee Files. Subseries 3g-4: Interior Subcommittee, General Subject Tim Shea, 1983-1990, contains files on Abortion Issues, Global Warming, and March for Life. Subgroup II. Legislative. Series 3. House Appropriations Committee Files. Subseries h: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Subcommittee, 1981-1990. Part 2: Health and Human Services Files (HHS), contains files on Abortion and National Right to Life Newspaper. Subgroup II. Legislative. Series 6. Legislative Subject/Correspondence Files, contains mostly constituent correspondence and the office's response on such issues as the Civil Rights movement, Communism, firearms control, abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment, and federal aid to education. Subgroup V. Office Administration. Series 1: Pat Larkin Files (Administrative Asst.), 1980-1991, contains files on Abortion.

      Finding aids:

      http://scua.library.umass.edu/ead/mums371.html

      http://scua.library.umass.edu/ead/mums371.pdf

      http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/umass/mums371.html

      [0669b] Contempo Collection, 1925-1945, undated, Manuscript Collection MS-0908

      Location: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 300 West 21st Street, Austin, Texas 78712

      Description: Includes letters to the Great Depression-era literary magazine Contempo (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), as well as works by its contributors, mostly addressed to editors Milton Abernethy and Anthony Buttitta. Letters (except where noted) by Harry Elmer Barnes, Charles Austin Beard, Seward Collins, Max Eastman (with enclosure), Lewis Stiles Gannett, J. H. Gipson, Henry Hazlitt, Archibald Henderson, Granville Hicks, Carey McWilliams, Henry Louis Mencken, Gorham Bert Munson, Isabel Bowler Paterson, Ezra Loomis Pound (with enclosures), Edward Merrill Root, George Samuel Schuyler, Dorothy Thompson, George Sylvester Viereck, and Oswald Garrison Villard.

      Websites with information:

      http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/curatorial.cfm

      Finding aids:

      http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/pdf/01041.pdf

      http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01041

      [0669c] Contempo Records, 1930-1934, Collection Number: 04408 [partly digital collection]

      Location: Southern Historical Collection, Manuscripts Department, 4th Floor, Wilson Library CB# 3926, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-8890

      Description: This collection consists chiefly of letters from contributors or potential contributors to Contempo (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1931-1934), and typescripts of their poetry, fiction, and articles. There is also correspondence of a more routine nature, with booksellers and publishers, and a few clippings, photocopies of articles, and photographs. Series 1. Material from Contributors, 1931-1933, contains files on Donald Davidson, Max Eastman, T.S. Eliot, Havelock Ellis, H.L. Mencken, Gorham B. Munson, Ezra Pound, E. Merrill Root, and George Sylvester Viereck.

      Websites with information:

      http://library.unc.edu/wilson/shc/findingaids/browse-finding-aids/

      Finding aid:

      http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04408/

      [0670] Contemporary Culture Collection

      Location: Special Collections Research Center, Samuel Paley Library (017-00), 1210 Polett Walk, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122

      Description: Established in 1969, the Contemporary Culture Collection (CCC) is a source of primary research materials documenting social, political, economic and cultural history as it pertains to minority groups, the counterculture, and the fringe. The CCC includes small press journals, newsletters, and newspapers, books, and pamphlets as well as microfilm, sound recordings, posters, broadsides, and related ephemera. Includes materials produced by alternative, independent, and small literary publishers, political organizations of the far left and right, social reform and liberation movement organizations, alternative lifestyle and energy advocates, and radicals in the professions. There are alternative and radical left- and right-wing press ephemera and polemical writings, along with taped interviews with neo-Nazi leaders and others.

      Reference:

      Martin J. Manning, Historical Dictionary of American Propaganda (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004), p. 355.

      Websites with information:

      http://library.temple.edu/collections/scrc/contemporary-culture

      http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma1.html