Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives. Archie Henderson
Location: Special Collections, African Studies Collection, UCT Library, University of Cape Town, Private Bag x 3, Rondebosch 7701, Western Cape, South Africa
Description: Contains a copy of the documentary film Hartseer land: een film over extreme rechts in Zuid-Afrika (My Beloved Country: The Extreme Right in South Africa), directed by Saskia Vredeveld (Amsterdam, Ciné Té Filmproduktie Amsterdam, 1991). By focusing on three specific groups – the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, the Boerestaat Party, and the proponents of the independent white enclave of Orania in the Northern Cape – the film presents a cross-section of their views. These Afrikaners believe that God chose them as the superior race of Africa. Throughout, the followers of these groups present themselves as the preservers of white civilization, fighting to maintain their culture, language and religion, if necessary with force. They would like to re-establish a separate white state – the old "Boer State", now to be called "Orandee", which was destroyed by England in 1902 during the Boer War. Also contains a copy of the BBC programme No Way Back, directed by David Harrison (BBC News & Current Affairs, 1990). Reporter David Dimbleby looks at white right wing reaction to Nelson Mandela's release and subsequent violence. In this programme, representatives of the Conservative Party, the White Transport Union, the AWB and the Oranjewerkers all express their anger at the government's actions.
Websites with information:
http://sabinet.worldcat.org/title/hartseer-land-extreem-rechts-in-zuid-afrika-my-beloved-country-the-extreme-right-in-south-africa/oclc/869779403&referer=brief_results
http://www.saha.org.za/resources/docs/PDF/Publications/AV_Audit_2010.pdf
Finding aid:
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/asl/films2013.pdf
[0022] Papers of the Afrikaner Party, 1940-1951, PV 51
Location: Archive for Contemporary Affairs, Stef Coetzee Building, Room 109, Academic Avenue South, University of the Free State, 205 Nelson Mandela Drive, Park West, Bloemfontein 9300 South Africa
Description: After the declaration of war in September 1939, Gen. Hertzog and his followers broke away from the United Party and founded the Volks Party. The Volks Party then split up and one section joined the National Party to form the Herenigde [Re-united] National Party while the other section became the Afrikaner Party under the leadership of N.C. Havenga. During the 1948 election the HNP and AP joined forces. In 1951 the two parties amalgamated and became the National Party.
Websites with information:
http://supportservices.ufs.ac.za/content.aspx?id=196
http://supportservices.ufs.ac.za/content.aspx?id=527
http://www.archivalplatform.org/registry/entry/south_african_political_party_archives
Finding aid:
http://supportservices.ufs.ac.za/dl/Userfiles/Documents/00001/1163_eng.pdf
[0022a] The Afro Newspaper Morgue Collections, 1920s-present (bulk 1930s-1970s)
Location: Afro-American Newspapers Archives and Research Center, 2519 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Description: Founded in 1892 by John H. Murphy, Sr., the Afro-American Newspaper, most commonly called the Afro, began publication with the specific mission of documenting the news in the black community of Baltimore City, Maryland. The Afro-American Newspapers Archives and Research Center holds the newspaper's "morgue" files. The photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, brochures, and pamphlets in the AFRO Morgue were collected by reporters and editors at the Afro for use as reference materials. The morgue is made up of more than 155,000 individual folders about people, places, issues, and events. The collection contains as many as million images and provides a rich visual record of African American life in the twentieth century. Files or materials on Ross Barnett, Bryant Bowles, busing, Ace Carter, John Birch Society, John Kasper, Ku Klux Klan, lynchings, school integration, school segregation, and school desegregation.
Websites with information:
https://marylandhcc.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/afro-american-newspapers-archives-and-research-center/
http://morgue.afro.com/AfroArchon/
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/oltitles.html
[0022b] Louis Agassiz letters and other material, 1847-1896
Location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 346 Main Library (MC-522), 1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois 61801
Description: Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was a professor of natural history, first at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, and later at Harvard University, and the founder of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. Includes 30 letters written by Agassiz.
Websites with information:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/administration/collections/about/special.html
http://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=426
[0023] Philip Agee Papers, 1948-2007 (bulk 1965-2000), TAM.517
Location: Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012
Description: Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (1935-2008) was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and writer, best known as the author of Inside the Company: CIA Diary (1975), which identified about 250 CIA officers, front companies and foreign agents then or previously working for the United States. Agee joined the CIA in 1957, and over the following decade had postings in Washington, D.C., Ecuador, Uruguay, and Mexico. After resigning from the Agency in 1968, he became a leading opponent of CIA practices. Exiled from the U.S., and expelled from Great Britain, he died in Cuba in January 2008. The collection contains: biographical materials, correspondence, datebooks, documents obtained under the FOIA Act, notably CIA documents, as well as FBI and State Department documents; legal materials from various cases in which Agee was the plaintiff; lectures and university teaching files; subject files, many relating to Latin American and other countries and to CIA activity in them, and some relating to his expulsion from Great Britain; published and unpublished writings by Agee; reviews of his work; and other writings about Agee. Series VI, Subject Files. Subseries VI-A, Countries: Latin America and the Caribbean, contains files on Nicaragua: Contras: US Backed Anti Government Guerrilla Group (Clippings) and Nicaragua (The CIA Manual Distributed for Anti-Government Forces in Nicaragua): Distributed by the Center for Constitutional Rights Before the House Committee on Intelligence. Series VI, Subject Files. Subseries VI-D, Individuals, Organizations, Topics, contains files on Council Against Communist Aggression, Washington, DC; Council For Inter-American Security, Washington DC; "Counterspy" Clippings; Covert Action Bulletin; "Gladio-Timewatch" Script by James Jesus Angleton, Head of CIA Counter-Intelligence 1954-1974; Gladio (Operation): Italian Secret Network Anticipating the Soviet Overrunning of the West: Clippings (English, Spanish, Italian); The Heritage Foundation: "To Restore Balance, Freedom of Information and National Security; and Mind Control: Clippings. Series VII, University Lectures, Teaching and Research Files (1948-1999), contains files on "The Extreme Right in Europe in the 1990s:" Lecture (English, German); "The Extreme Right in Europe in the 1990s," Research Materials; "The Extreme Right in the US and Canada in the 1990s:" Lecture (English, German); Italy-Role of P-2, 1994 Elections Neonazism: Reading Assignments; Italy-US Intervention in 1947-1948, 1960s and 1970s, and Gladio Reading Assignments; "Neo-Nazism and Racism in America" Research Materials; "Neo-Nazism in Germany" Research Materials (English); "Neo-Nazism in Germany" Research Materials (German); "Racism, Anti-Semitism, Homophobia:" Reading Assignments; "Racism, Anti-Semitism, Homophobia" Research Materials; "Reinhard Gehlen and Continuation of the German War against the USSR:" Lecture (English, German); "Reinhard Gehlen and Continuation of the German War against the USSR" Reading Assignments; and "Reinhard Gehlen and Continuation of the German War against the USSR:" Research Materials.
Websites with information:
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/fa_index.html
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