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

      http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/le-public/005-1142.02-e.html

      [0780] Department of Records Photo Gallery [digital photograph collection]

      Location: New York City Department of Records and Information Services, 31 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10007

      Description: The NYC Municipal Archives Online Gallery contains over 900,000 items digitized from the Municipal Archives' collections, including photographs, maps, motion-pictures, and audio recordings. Includes photographs of political groups monitored by the New York City Police Department's "Alien Squad." These photographs range from Communist Party rallies in Madison Square Garden to an America First Committee rally at Madison Square Garden, May 23, 1941; a meeting of Christian Mobilizers at Innesfield Park, September 20, 1939; and Camp Siegfried, Yaphank, Long Island, and various representatives of the German American Bund at the camp, May 22, 1938. Also includes photographs of General Douglas MacArthur.

      Finding aids:

      http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/gallery/home.shtml

      http://www.nyc.gov/cgi-bin/exit.pl?url=http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/view/group/2965

      [0780a] General Records of the Department of State, 1763-2002, Record Group 59

      Location: National Archives at College Park, MD, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001

      Description: The series Voice of America (VOA) Historical Files, 1946-1953 (National Archives Identifier 5635478), consists of airgrams, charts, correspondence, despatches, magazines, magazine excerpts, maps, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, pamphlets, photographs, posters, questionnaires, reports, scripts, speeches, telegrams, and transcripts related to the post-World War II continuation of the Voice of America (VOA) radio programming. The series contains files on specific VOA radio programs; jamming of VOA broadcasts; radio equipment distribution; transmitters and broadcasting facilities; publicity and audience building; relations with news agencies; evidence of program effectiveness; the U.S. Advisory Committee on Information; Radio Free Europe; newspaper and magazine articles about the VOA; government officials' speeches about the VOA; and the Katyń Massacre. The folders of material concerning the Katyń Massacre are titled "Katyń Forest Massacres I," "Katyń Forest Massacres II," and "Katyń Forest Massacres III."

      Reference:

      Selected Records Relating to the Katyń Forest Massacre at the National Archives and Records Administration, http://www.archives.gov/research/foreign-policy/Katyń-massacre/selected-records.pdf.

      Catalogue description:

      https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5635478

      [0781] Robert DePugh Interview, 1966, Audio 1409A [sound recording]

      Location: Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division, 816 State St., Madison, WI 53706-1417

      Description: Interview by William Turner with Robert DePugh (1923-2009) of the Minutemen organization at Norborne, Missouri. Turner is author of a book on right wing organizations entitled Power on the Right.

      Websites with information:

      http://arcat.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=2996

      http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu:8888/xtf/view?docId=99166-w6127b4d.xml

      https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/173699486

      http://www.worldcat.org/title/interview-1966/oclc/173699486

      [0781a] Avedis Derounian papers

      Location: Edward and Helen Mardigian Reference and Research Library, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, Inc., 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA 02478

      Description: Avedis Derounian, aka John Roy Carlson (1909-1991), was the antifascist author of the best-sellers Under Cover (1943) and The Plotters (1946). The papers contain files on more than 100 organizations and individuals, including the American Legion and the German American Bund.

      Reference:

      Christopher Vials, "UConn Scholar on Importance of Derounian Archive at NAASR," NAASR Newsletter (National Association for Armenian Studies and Research) (Fall/Winter/Spring 2011-2012), p. 9, https://cdn.shopi

      fy.com/s/files/1/0860/2240/files/2011-2012_Fall-Winter-Spring.pdf.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.naasr.org/pages/mardigian-library

      [0781b] The Desegregation Collection, 1976-1983, Coll. 56

      Location: Chicano Studies Research Center Library, 144 Haines Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951544, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1544

      Description: These files consist of personal notes, index cards, articles, and newspaper clippings. Files on Citizens' Advisory Committee on Student Integration; Crawford vs. Board of Education, City of Los Angeles; "Proposed Position and Policy Statement to the Chicano Subcommittee of the Citizens' Advisory Committee on Student Integration"; Bustop, a Corporation, Petitioner vs. Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, Respondent; and Jeanne Thiel Landis, "The Crawford Desegregation Suit in Los Angeles 1977-1981: The Multiethnic Community Versus BUSTOP" (Ph.D., UCLA, 1984).

      Finding aids:

      http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/ucla/clucs/csrcdc.pdf

      http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8r29r2nk/entire_text/

      [0782] John Hensley DeTar Papers, 1956-73, Coll. 113

      Location: Nevada Historical Society, 1650 North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada 89503

      Description: Dr. John H. (Jake) Detar (1925-2011), a Reno physician, was organizer and director of the John Birch Society in Nevada in the early 1960s. He was also associated with the American Independent Party, American Friends of Katanga, and the National States Rights Party. In 1964 he proposed a congressional investigation of Communist influence in folk singing. An opponent of the ecumenical council Vatican II and of the abandonment of the Latin mass by the Catholic Church, DeTar formed a publishing company, Athanasius Press, to publish his book To Deceive the Elect, written with Thomas Manion. The papers consist of letters, reports, literary manuscripts, miscellaneous documents, and considerable printed matter (many Birch Society publications), relating to anti-Communist, right-wing political groups and activities, mostly in Nevada. Includes correspondence with many Nevada political leaders and politically conservative periodicals.

      References:

      "What's Going On. The John H. Detar Collection," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, XVII.1 (Spring 1974), p. 30, http://nsla.nevadaculture.org/statepubs/epubs/210777-1974-1Spring.pdf; A Guide to the Manuscript Collections at the Nevada Historical Society (1975), http://quest.grainger.uiuc.edu/Russian­Manuscripts/Guide/Collection/350; Dennis Myers, "John DeTar 1925-2011," Dec. 8, 2011, http://www.­newsreview.com/reno/news

      view/blogs?date=2011-12-01 and http://www.newsreview.com/­reno/newsview/­blogs/post?oid=4591891; John DeTar (1925-2011), http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/rgj/obituary.aspx?­n=john-detar&pid=154745276.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.museums.nevadaculture.org/resources/1/Nevada%20Historical%20Society_mastermslist.pdf

      [0783] Detroit Commission on Community Relations Records, 1940-1984, Accession #267

      Location: Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, 5401 Cass Ave., Detroit, MI 48202

      Description: The City of Detroit Commission on Community Relations evolved from the City of Detroit Mayor's Interracial Committee. The Interracial Committee was instituted by Mayor Edward Jeffries late in 1943 as a response to the Detroit race riot of June 1943. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, minutes, membership information, newspaper clippings, speeches, press releases, publications and case files documenting its efforts to overcome racial discrimination and improve race relations in the Detroit