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

      [0256] Hugh Joseph Beard Papers, 1971-1992, MS0161

      Location: J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223-0001

      Description: Hugh Joseph Beard (1946-2002) was a lawyer and conservative political activist. Includes correspondence documenting his involvement with various conservative political and religious groups, including the North Carolina Conservative Union, the North Carolina Fund for Individual Rights, the Southern Employees Education Fund, Young Republicans, and anti-abortion groups Birthchoice and Pro-life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians. Also includes material about his involvement with community organizations such as the Charlotte Jaycees, his unsuccessful political campaigns, and his involvement with gay conservative political organizations. Series 2. United States Department of Education. Office of the General Counsel. Subject files 1981-1983, contains files on Rockford College, School desegregation, Title IX--Abortion, Busing, Desegregation, Hillsdale College v. Dept. of Education, Knights of the KKK v. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, and U.S. Supreme Court--Thomas nomination. Series 3. United States Department of Justice. Office of Civil Rights. Subject files 1983-1992, contains files on American life league, Citizens for God and Country, Civil rights Restoration Act--Abortion 1987, Desegregation, Family Research Council--Bauer letter, Gay rights, and Immigration. Series 4. Organizations 1970-2000, contains files on Capital Area Log Cabin Republicans, Cato Institute, Christian Freedom Foundation, Citizens for Reagan, Committee for Western Civilization, Conservative groups, Conservative Network, Eagle Forum, Federalist Society, Foundation for Economic Education, Helms for senate, Human Events, Institute for Humane Studies, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, John Birch Society, Libertarian Party of North Carolina, Log Cabin Republicans, Manhattan Institute, North Carolina Conservative Society, Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, and Pro-life and right-to-life groups.

      Websites with information:

      http://guides.library.uncc.edu/c.php?g=173102&p=1141485

      https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/841572254

      http://www.worldcat.org/title/papers-of-hugh-joseph-beard-1963-1982/oclc/841572254

      Finding aid:

      http://library.uncc.edu/manuscript/ms0161

      [0257] John O. Beaty controversy papers, 1949-1964, SMU 1992.0167

      Location: Southern Methodist University Archives, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, 6404 Hilltop Ln, Dallas, TX 75205

      Description: The papers pertain to controversy surrounding Beaty's 1954 publication of a pamphlet entitled "How to Capture a University," which asserted that un-Christian and even Communist influences were infiltrating SMU. This collection includes copies of that pamphlet, in addition to depositions and exhibits taken by a school committee, newspaper clippings, and letters both condemning and supporting his charges.

      Finding aid:

      http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/smu/00034/smu-00034.html

      [0258] John Owen Beaty Papers, 1949-1961, Coll. 135

      Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Knight Library, 2nd floor North, Mail: UO Libraries--SPC, 1299 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1299

      Description: Beaty (1890-1961) was an educator and writer. The papers include correspondence with several prominent conservatives such as William F. Buckley, Pedro A. del Valle, Merwin K. Hart, George W. Robnett, and George E. Stratemeyer; articles and pamphlets written by Beaty; and correspondence of his wife, Josephine Powell Beaty, who was also active in conservative circles.

      Finding aid: Included in National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (ProQuest UMI's microfiche series).

      Reference:

      The Creative Arts in Texas, p. 74

      Websites with information:

      http://researchguides.uoregon.edu/scua-politics/conservative

      http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/guides/conservative.html

      http://janus.uoregon.edu/record=b1955560

      http://janus.uoregon.edu/record=b1955560~S8

      https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/19336654

      http://www.worldcat.org/title/papers-1949-1961/oclc/19336654

      [0258a] James M. Beck Papers, 1787-1936 (bulk 1880-1936), MC007

      Location: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Public Policy Papers, Princeton University Library, 65 Olden Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

      Description: James Montgomery Beck (1861-1936) was a lawyer, Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney, Assistant Attorney General, Solicitor General of the United States, a Republican member of Congress, author, and public speaker. As a Congressman from Pennsylvania (1927-1933) he was the leading spokesman in the campaign against Prohibition. His book Neither Purse Nor Sword (1936) treats the destruction wrought by the New Deal upon the Constitution. The papers consist primarily of correspondence, articles, addresses and scrapbooks. Series 1, Correspondence, 1890-1936, contains correspondence with Hiram Bingham, William E. Borah, Nicholas M. Butler, William Randolph Hearst, David Lawrence, Alexander Lincoln, Robert McCormick, H.L. Mencken, James A Reed, Archibald B. Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Baron George Sydenham Clarke, Sydenham of Combe, James True, Charles Warren, and Owen Wister. Series 2, Subject Files, 1893-1936, contains correspondence arranged by subject matter, then chronologically. Subjects include American Liberty League, New Deal, Prohibition, Republican Party, and states' rights.

      Finding aids:

      http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC007

      http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC007.pdf

      [0259] John Beckett Collection, 1914-1998, MS 238

      Location: Special Collections, The University Library, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK

      Description: John Warburton Beckett (1894-1964) was a British politician and a leading figure in the Fascist movement. The collection consists of books, journals, and some documents formerly belonging to Beckett, together with research materials assembled by his son, the journalist Francis Beckett, during the writing of his biography of his father The Rebel Who Lost His Cause, published in 1999. In 1933 he was declared bankrupt and his second marriage failed, and he joined the British Union of Fascists, like Mosley having been impressed through visits to Italy by the achievements of the Mussolini regime. During his years with the BUF he was widely involved in agitational work, took a full share in rowdy meetings, became Director of Publicity, and for the years 1936-7 edited both Action and Blackshirt. By Spring 1937, when he was dismissed from the BUF, Beckett was openly critical of Mosley. With William Joyce, dismissed at the same time, he founded the National Socialist League, but this organisation never achieved more than a small number of members. He left the League in 1938 but remained in contact with Joyce until the latter left for Germany shortly before World War II. In September 1938 Joyce joined with Viscount Lymington to form the British Council Against European Commitments, to which the NSL became affiliated. Beckett and Lymington published a monthly journal, the New Pioneer, championing non-involvement in European affairs. Beckett then moved to a new organisation which he joined with Lymington and the Marquis of Tavistock (later the Duke of Bedford), the British Peoples Party, of which he became Secretary, which had as its slogan Campaign against War and Usury. Its aims were monetary reform, the championing of small shopkeepers against trusts, security of employment, and electoral reform. In May 1940 Beckett was arrested under Defence Regulation 18B and interned, along with many other political detainees considered a potential danger by the Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison. The series Books and Journals contains copies of Fascist Quarterly; Oswald Mosley: portrait of a leader, by A.K. Chesterton (London, Action Press, [1937]); B.U.F.: Oswald Mosley and British Fascism, by James Drennan [i.e., W.E.D. Allen] (London, Murray, 1934); The Spectre of Communism, by Henry Gibbs (London, Selwyn & Blount, [1936]); The