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

a debate between Phyllis Schlafly and Sarah Ragle Weddington recorded in Ithaca, NY, by Cornell University, March 14, 1989. Weddington and Shlafly debate the ethical aspects of abortion and the future of legislation on abortion in the United States. Weddington argues that abortion is a woman's legal and moral right of choice; Shlafly argues that abortion is murder and should be made illegal.

      Websites with information:

      https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/63898180

      http://www.worldcat.org/title/future-of-abortion/oclc/63898180

      Finding aid:

      https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/42947

      [0686] Ruby Pendergrass Cornwell Papers, 1944-2003 (bulk 1950-1969), AMN 1039

      Location: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston, 125 Bull Street, Charleston, SC 29424

      Description: Ruby Madelene Pendergrass Cornwell (1902-2003) was an educator and civil rights activist. It was through her association with the NAACP that she developed close ties with United States District Judge Julius Waites Waring and his wife Elizabeth. Series 2. Correspondence from Judge Waites Waring and Elizabeth Waring, 1950-1967, contains letters which discuss topics including white supremacy and prejudice in the Deep South; the KKK; Southern racial attitudes resulting from segregation; opposition of "segregation profiteers"; civil rights; resistance movements to school integration; opinions on Charleston's News and Courier newspaper; Communist "witch hunts"; "gradualism"; Highlander Folk School; Governor James Byrnes' attitude regarding segregation; South Africa's segregation; possible screening for Communist infiltration of the Charleston N.A.A.C.P.; McCarthyism; the Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education; journalist [William] Hodding Carter [II]; the South's desegregation plan; public school desegregation; Emmett Till's murder; "communism conspiracy"; Sarah Patton Boyle's writing a book [eventually entitled The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition]; book 58 Lonely Men: Southern Federal Judges and School Desegregation, by J. W. Peltason (1961), featuring Judge Waring; and news clippings regarding the objection to News and Courier editor Thomas R. Waring's receiving an honorary degree from Sewanee, the University of the South.

      Reference:

      Directory of Manuscript Collections Related to Federal Judges, 1789-1997. Compiled by Peter A. Wonders (Federal Judicial History Office, Federal Judicial Center, 1998), p. 206, http://www.fjc.gov/public/­pdf.nsf/lookup/judmsdir.pdf/$file/judmsdir.pdf and http://www.fjc.gov/­public/pdf.nsf/f385048e0431aa3c8525679e0055d35

      c/2aca63df6e927c7485256a870045907f/$FILE/JudMsDir.pdf

      Finding aid:

      http://avery.cofc.edu/archives/Cornwell_Ruby.html

      [0686a] Correspondence Files of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, 1931-1990s, Accession # RG-12/11/4.021

      Location: Special Collections Department, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110

      Description: The Special Collections Correspondence files consist chiefly of the general correspondence files of Special Collections of the University of Virginia Library and like files of its predecessors, the Rare Book Department and the Manuscripts Department. Series I: Correspondence (General), contains files on Charles Beard, Duke of Bedford, Thomas Hart Benton, Buckley Amendment, Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., John C. Calhoun, Civil Rights Collections, Virginius Dabney, Daughters of the American Revolution, John Dos Passos, T.S. Eliot, Dr. Henry Garrett, Carter Glass, Hitler, Herbert Hoover, James Jackson Kilpatrick, Rudyard Kipling, Libertarian Party, Henry Louis Mencken, Benjamin Muse, Ezra Pound, John Powell, A. Willis Robertson, George Santayana, Sons of the American Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Ludwig Von Mises, George Wallace, and William B. Yeats.

      Finding aid:

      http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu02299.xml

      [0687] Giovanni and Amne Costigan Papers, 1818-1990 (bulk circa 1930-1990), Accession No. 4338-001

      Location: Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Box 352900, Seattle, WA 98195-2900

      Description: Giovanni Marie Denis George Costigan (1905-1990) was a history professor at the University of Washington, a staunch defender of human rights, and a leader in the peace movement. The Giovanni Costigan papers include correspondence, notes, writings, diaries, clippings, photographs, pamphlets and publications, and subject files. Subject files on Anti-Communism, Patrick Buchanan, William F. Buckley, Jr., Christian Crusade, Communism on the Map, Debate - Costigan vs. William F. Buckley (Including: Tapes Photos), Goldwater, John Birch Society, Nazis, Oliver North, Right Wing, William Rusher, Edwin A. Walker, George Wallace, White Power, and George Will.

      Finding aids:

      http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv30112

      http://digital.lib.washington.edu/findingaids/view?docId=UA19_19_4338CostiganGiovanni.xml

      [0688] Howard Costigan Papers, 1933-1989, Coll. 4262

      Location: Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195-2900

      Description: Howard Costigan (1904-1985) was a long-time political organizer, researcher, and writer. He was noted mostly for his work as co-founder and executive secretary of the Communist-dominated Washington Commonwealth Federation, and then later as a fervent anti-Communist in both Washington and California. The papers contain a copy of "A Program for American Survival, 1973-1978" by the American Conservative Union, and subject files on Council Against Communist Aggression, Sidney Hook, Richard M. Nixon, Progressive League Against Communists [and Fascists], and Ward Warren (Progressive League Against Communists and Fascists).

      Finding aids:

      http://digital.lib.washington.edu/findingaids/view?docId=CostiganHoward4262.xml

      http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv26351

      [0689] Lawrence V. Cott Papers, 1964-1975, Coll. 11293

      Location: American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071

      Description: Cott was a free lance writer who wrote articles for politically conservative magazines reporting on the activities of political left-wing extremists. The magazines he wrote for included Combat, Human Events, and National Conservative Weekly (1964-1975).

      Websites with information:

      https://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/_files/collection_guides/politics_guide_2009_ed2016.pdf

      https://web.archive.org/web/20160919110928/https://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/collections/guides/politics.pdf

      https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/77562162

      http://www.worldcat.org/title/lawrence-v-cott-papers-1964-1983/oclc/77562162

      Finding aids:

      http://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/_files/pdffa/11293.pdf

      https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wyu-ah11293.xml

      [0690] William T. Couch Papers, 1926-1988, Coll. 03825

      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: William Terry Couch (1901-1988) had a long publishing career at university presses and encyclopedia companies. From Couch's later years, there are letters from conservative thinkers such as William F. Buckley and Russell Kirk and writings by Couch about his anti-Communist sentiments. In letters to Henry E. Garrett and to J. J. Kilpatrick, Couch also expressed his support for segregation and his unhappiness with liberal propaganda. Among the other correspondents are Kenneth Colegrove, David S. Collier (the editor of Modern Age: A Quarterly Review), Willmoore Kendall, Henry Regnery, Richard M. Weaver, and Robert H. W. Welch, Jr. Series 5. Center for American Studies, 1963-1964, contains files on David Hoggan and R. J. Rushdoony.

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