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

there are materials pertaining to AJC's work regarding other minority groups in the United States. The American Jewish Committee Records, Subject Files consists of materials created by executive offices, departments, local offices and chapters of the Committee concerning a variety of matters; foremost Jewish civil and religious rights, immigration, and the Holocaust. The records consist of briefs, cartoons, conference procedures, correspondence, discussion guides, interviews, legal documents, manuscripts, memoranda, minutes of meetings, opinion polls, printed materials, questionnaires, reports, resolutions, scrapbooks, speeches, statements, studies, surveys, and television and radio scripts. Subject files on Anti-Semitism, including Anti-Semites, Anti-Semitic groups, Hate literature, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and Swastika Epidemic; Extremism, including Radical Right; Genocide Convention; Group Libel Legislation, including Hate mail literature sent though the postal service; Hate and Violence, including Bombings, Terminiello case, Ku Klux Klan, Mothers, White Citizens, Anti-Lynching Legislation, Merchants (Austin Hancock, American Heritage Protective Society; Merwin K. Hart; Joseph Kamp; Conde McGinley; Gerald L.K. Smith), and Quarantine; Immigration, including McCarran-Walter Act; and Integration, including Hate and violence, Hate groups.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.cjh.org/p/93

      Finding aid:

      http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1863758

      [0110] AJC Subject Files (Gen-10), 1930-1962, RG 347.17.10 [digital collection]

      Location: American Jewish Committee Information Center and Digital Archives, 165 East 56th Street, New York, NY 10022

      Description: This series consists of alphabetical subject files. Main subjects include: anti-Semitism, bigotry and prejudice, church-state, civil liberties and rights, immigration, intergroup relations, race relations, restitution, and Zionism. The physical files are housed at the YIVO Archives. The subject file Anti-Semitism includes folders on Anti-Semitic groups 1934-1960, Hate literature articles and editorials 1933-1962, [Protocols of the] Elders of Zion, The New Nazis in Western Europe and Latin America (pamphlet, 1960-1962), Swastika Epidemic, and Neo-Nazi Youth Groups. The subject file Extremism contains a folder on the Conference on Preserving the Democratic Process, sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and held in Greenwich, Connecticut, January 25-27, 1962. The subject file Hate and Violence includes folders on Bombings, Terminiello case, Ku Klux Klan, Mothers groups, White Citizens, Anti-Lynching, Austin F. Hancock (American Heritage Protective Society), Merwin K. Hart, Joseph Kamp, Conde McGinley, and Gerald L.K. Smith. The booklet Anti-Semitic Activity in the United States: A Report and Appraisal (New York, American Jewish Committee, 1954) mentions American Heritage Protective Committee (San Antonio, Texas), George W. Armstrong, John Owen Beaty, Joseph Beauharnais, Frank L. Britton, Catherine V. Brown, Max A. X. Clark, Constitution Party, Edward A. Fleckenstein, Millard J. Flenner, Stephen Goodyear, John Hamilton, Merwin K. Hart, Jessie Welch Jenkins, Dan Kurtz, Andrew B. McAllister, W. Henry MacFarland, Jr., Conde McGinley, Kurt Mertig, George Van Horn Moseley, Eustace Mullins, National Renaissance Party, Stephen Nenoff, Gerald L. K. Smith, Jack B. Tenney, H. Keith Thompson, James R. White, Robert H. Williams, Gerald Winrod, Peter L. Xavier, and Allen A. Zoll. A mimeographed report on "The Dissident Political Movement—1956" (March 1956) cites American Good Government Society, Inc., American Mercury, The American Reporter (Sacramento, California), Prof. John O. Beaty, Black Monday (Judge Tom P. Brady), Judge Tom P. Brady, Mary D. Cain, Coalition Now (J. Harvie Williams), Christian Anti-Jewish Party (J. B. Stoner), Christian Nationalist Party (Gerald L. K. Smith), Committee for the 48 States, Congress of Freedom, Constitution Coalition Council, Constitution Party (San Antonio), Kent Courtney, Defenders of the American Constitution, Lt. Gen. Pedro A. del Valle (USMC ret.), Facts Forum (H. L. Hunt), Federation for Constitutional Government (John U. Barr), General Bonner Fellers, John T. Flynn, For America, Free Men Speak, Interim Committee for a New Party (ICNP), Iron Curtain Over America (John O. Beaty), Know Your Enemy, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, W. Henry MacFarland, Jr., Dean Clarence Manion, National Renaissance Party, Nationalist Conservative Party of Chicago (William B. Wernecke), Nationalist Party (West Hooker), Right (C. W. Thomas, San Francisco), W. J. Simmons, Dan Smoot, Gen. Stratemeyer, The Summit Sun, We, The People, White Citizens' Council, and Zion's Trojan Horse (Jack B. Tenney).

      References:

      Inventory of records of the American Jewish Committee, 1906-80, by Seymour J. Pomrenze (New York, N.Y., American Jewish Committee, Institute of Human Relations, 1981); Index to the Inventory of records of the American Jewish Committee, 1906-80, by Jessica L. Milstead and Beverly A. Pajer (New York, N.Y., American Jewish Committee, 1994).

      Websites with information:

      http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33740

      Finding aids:

      http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1863758

      http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33847

      http://www.ajcarchives.org/ajcarchive/DigitalArchive.aspx

      [0111] Records of American Jewish Congress, undated, 1916-2006 (bulk 1949-2003), I-77

      Location: American Jewish Historical Society, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011

      Description: The records of the American Jewish Congress, a national Jewish agency, concerned primarily with Jewish and other minority civil rights, include the constitution, by-laws, and minutes of the Administrative and Executive Committees and Governing Council of the Congress. The American Jewish Congress Records collects archival material from the creation of the organization to its later years, from 1915 through 2005. Files on "Benjamin Franklin Vindicated" (November 1938), "Father Coughlin: His 'Facts' and Arguments" (1939) [online at https://ia800303.us.archive.org/7/items/FatherCoughlinHisFactsAnd­Arguments_201502/Father%20Coughlin%20his%20facts%20and

      %20arguments.PDF], "The Claim of 'Nordic' Race Supremacy," by Johan J. Smertenko (1924), Academic freedom and Shockley [William Shockley], American Mercury, Anti-Semitic literature collection, Institute of Jewish Affairs, Anti-Semitism in the U.S., Richard Arens, Becker Amendment, Benjamin Franklin forgery, Bombings, 1958-1962, Bricker Amendment, Bricker Resolution, Patrick Buchanan, Camps for Subversives, Church and State - Religion in Public Schools (Becker Amendment), Church and State - Religion and Politics (Contract with the American Family, Moral Majority, New Christian Right, Religious Right, Pat Robertson, Thomas G. Tancredo, Paul Weyrich), Conde McGinley, Discrimination - Private Club Discrimination, 1952-2001, Discrimination - Ku Klux Klan and Extremist Groups (David Duke, Knight Riders of the Ku Klux Klan, Military and white supremacist activity, Neo-Nazi and Aryan Nation, Paramilitary training camps, Recruitment on internet, Skinheads), Discrimination - Anti-Semitism and Race Relations, Discrimination - Hate Crimes and Vandalism, Robert Dole, Equal rights amendment, Evangelical Right, Extremist speech, Jerry Falwell, Family Research Council, Farm crisis, Father Feeney, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Paul Findley, Flag salute and burning, Leo Frank, Genocide and Human Rights Treaties, Newt Gingrich, Gun control, Hate speech, Helms Amendment, Heritage Foundation, Holocaust revisionism, House Un-American Activities Committee, International anti-Semitism, Jewish Defense League, Jewish religious right, John Birch Society, Meir Kahane, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ku Klux Klan, Liberty Lobby, McCarthyism, Moral Majority, National Rifle Association, Nazis, Neo-conservatives, Neo-Nazism, Oberammergau, Pat Robertson, Prayer amendments (Helms/Byrd), Promise Keepers Movement, Queens Nazi movement, Racial Segregation, Ronald Reagan, Reese Investigation of tax exempt organizations, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Resolution regarding censure of Senator McCarthy, Pat Robertson, George Rockwell, School Desegregation, School prayer, School vouchers, Segregation, Skokie, Illinois, Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America, Soviet anti-Semitism, Valerian Trifa, United States Citizen vs. Senator Theo. G. Bilbo, and James P. Warburg.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.cjh.org/p/93

      Finding aids:

      http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=365446

      http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=365446

      http://www.cjh.org/nhprc/AmericanJewishCongress.pdf

      [0112] American Jewish Congress, Northern