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

These records document a range of activities including legal cases and ongoing functions of the Louisiana branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. Cases include a variety of issues, such as Creationism, abortion, AIDS discrimination, censorship, and others.

      Websites with information:

      http://newcomb.tulane.edu/blogs/reprohealth/archival-collections/primary-sources-archival-collection/

      Finding aid:

      http://amistadresearchcenter.tulane.edu/archon/index.php?p=accessions/accession&id=923

      [0073] American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland (ACLU) Collection, 1919-2005

      Location: Langsdale Library Special Collections, University of Baltimore, 1420 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21201

      Description: The Maryland ACLU was founded March 8, 1931, and currently has over 14,000 members in Maryland. It is a nonprofit foundation involved in litigation and public education. The collection consists of case files, correspondence, reports, publications, clippings, and programs. Series IX. Subject Files, contains files on Abortion, Abortion, Sterilization, Church/State: Prayer in Schools, Expression: Flag Desecration, Expression: Loyalty Oaths, Operation Abolition, and George L. Rockwell.

      Websites with information:

      http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/special-collections/a-z-holdings-list/

      Finding aids:

      http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/special-collections/a-z-holdings-list/american-civil-liberties-union-of-maryland.cfm

      http://cdm16352.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16352coll2/id/26

      [0074] American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts records, 1920-2005

      Location: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215

      Description: The records of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLUM), formerly the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (CLUM), consist of 96 record cartons, 3 document boxes and 11 oversize boxes, spanning the years 1920-2005. The records include legal, legislative, and subject files, ACLUM administrative records, correspondence, printed material, and other records related to the organization's attempts to protect civil rights in Massachusetts and the United States. Series I. Archival records, 1920-1970, contains files on Anti-Poll Tax Bill; Dies Committee; Poll-Tax; McCarran Act; Smith Act of 1940; "Operation Correction," anti-HUAC film, 1962; "Operation Abolition," HUAC Film, 1961; American Nazi Party, George L. Rockwell case, 1960; Becker Amendment, school prayer, 1964; Group Research Report, newsletter in right-wing groups, index, 1964; Group Research Report, newsletter, 1962-63; House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC); John Birch Society; and Massachusetts Commission to Investigate Subversion, Sherman Commission, "Reports of The Social Commission to Investigate the Activities within this Commonwealth of Communistic, Fascist, Nazi and other Subversive Organizations...," Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1938. Series VII. Subject files, 1972-1999, contains files on Abortion, 1978-1989; ACLU defense of right-wingers, 1987; David Duke; The Nationalist Movement, 1995; Ollie North on Freedom Alliance, 1990; Religious Right, 1993-1994; Skokie and CLUM, 1977-1978; and White supremacist parade. 1994 (Richard Barrett of the Mississippi-based Nationalist Movement, in Boston, May 7, 1994).

      Finding aids:

      http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0309

      http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0309

      [0075] American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan/Metropolitan Detroit Branch Collection Papers, 1952-1966, Accession #231

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

      Description: The Metropolitan Detroit Branch of the American Civil Liberties Union was chartered in 1952 as an affiliate of the national ACLU, founded in 1920 to protect the civil liberties of citizens expressing unpopular views during World War I. In 1961, the Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Detroit area chapters joined together to form the ACLU of Michigan, which coordinates civil liberties activities for these and several other chapters that formed over the next decades. The papers of the ACLU of Michigan/Metropolitan Detroit Branch consist of minutes, correspondence, reports, clippings, case files, press releases, newsletters and other material relating primarily to the activities of the Detroit branch and to a lesser extent the activities of the state organization and regional branches. Series II - General File, contains files on Anti-Communist, Anti-Labor legislation, Bricker Amendment, Barry Goldwater, Gwinn Amendment (1952; forbidding the occupation of public housing by a member of an organization on the Attorney General's list of subversive groups, and required loyalty oaths as a means to insure this), Imprisonment for Debt, Jenner-Butler Bill (to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in certain cases), Miscegenation, Moral Rearmament, Operation Abolition and Operation Correction, Lee Harvey Oswald, Karl Prussion, Right to Work, Right Wing Organizations, Jack Ruby, and Smith Act (internal security).

      Websites with information:

      http://reuther.wayne.edu/abstracts

      Finding aid:

      http://reuther.wayne.edu/files/UR000231.pdf

      [0076] American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota records, 1940-2012 (bulk 1951-1996), File no. 00497, Accession numbers: 14,123, etc.

      Location: Minnesota Historical Society, 345 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55102-1906

      Description: Organizational files, subject files, news media files, files relating to relationships with other organizations, investigation files, fund raising events, lobbying files, and case files documenting the 1952 formation and subsequent activities of the Minnesota state affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union. Organizational Files, 1940-1997 (bulk 1951-1996), contains a file on the film Communism on the Map (National Education Program, Searcy, Ark.; produced by Glenn A. Green), 1961-1962. Subject Files, 1951-2012. Topic I: Freedom of Belief, Expression, and Association, contains files on Free Speech (National Committee to Abolish the HUAC, 1958-1966; House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) - "Operation Abolition" (film), 1960-1962; Hate crimes rulings; Racism hate speech); Cases (Nazi march in Skokie, 1978-1988); Flag burning; Mississippi KKK case, 1978; Freedom of Assembly (Anti-abortion protests); and Religion and the Public Schools (Creationism, Prayer in the public schools). Topic II: Equality Before the Law, contains files on Discrimination in education: desegregation; Grove City decision and aftermath; and Racial discrimination. Topic V: Abortion and Reproductive Freedom, contains files on Pro-life movement clippings and Right to Life publications. Topic VIII: Miscellaneous Subject Files, contains files on American Legion, American Nazi Party, anti-Communism, Civil rights, Euthanasia, Anti-gay legislation: an attempt to sanction inequality, Gun control, Holocaust studies, Iran Contra, Loyalty oaths, Moral majority/new right, and Segregation. Organizations, 1969-1995, contains files on American Nazi Party, Ku Klux Klan, Minnesota Family Council, Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, Moral Majority, Morality in Media, National Socialist White People's Party, and Religious Right.

      Websites with information:

      http://libguides.mnhs.org/civilrights/primary

      http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/index_A.htm

      Finding aids:

      http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00497.xml

      http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00497.xml

      [0077] American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina records, 1960-2005 and undated, RL.00012

      Location: Human Rights Archive, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Box 90185, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185

      Description: North Carolina affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, founded in 1969 and based in Raleigh. The records of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina (ACLU of N.C.) date from the 1960s to the mid-2000s. There are many files on the Ku Klux Klan, Confederate displays, and right-wing organizations in North Carolina. Files on Creationism; Picketers at Crist Clinic being charged with interference, 1982; telegram from ACLU-NC to Jesse Helms; Ku Klux Klan/Nazi