Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives. Archie Henderson
Influence of the Anglo-Saxon Race on the World: An Address, Delivered before the Eutaw Junto, May 17, 1844 (1844); Josiah C. Nott, Two Lectures, on the Natural History of the Caucasian and Negro Races (1844); Samuel F. Rice, Americanism and Southern Rights: An Address Delivered before a Mass Meeting of the American Party of Talladega County, Sept. 6, 1855 (1855); William R. Smith, The American Party, and Its Mission: Speech Delivered in the House of Representatives, Jan. 15, 1855 (1855); John Sparkman, Speech Prepared for Delivery before Annual Luncheon of Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity at the Alabama Bar Convention, Tuscaloosa, Ala., July 19, 1957; John Sparkman, "Notes on the Japanese Peace Treaty," Journal of Public Law, 1 (Spring 1952): 109-116; George C. Wallace, Address of Right worshipful Brother, George C. Wallace, Grand Orator of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Alabama, in Its 141st Annual Communication in Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 21, 1961; John H. Wallace, Let Alabamians Write Their Representatives at Once: The Proposed Amendments to the Federal Constitution, Providing for National Woman's Suffrage and National Prohibition, Obliterate the Democratic Principle of Local Self-Government and Constitute a Dangerous Encroachment upon the Sovereignty of the States. From the Montgomery Advertiser, Dec. 20, 1916; and West Virginia University Documents Relating to Reconstruction. Nos. 4 and 5. Edited by Walter L. Fleming. Morgantown, WV: 1904 [III. Local Ku Klux Constitution] [online at http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/book/D
ocuments_Relating_to_Reconstruction.pdf].
Finding aid:
http://www.archives.state.al.us/findaids/v10146.pdf
Finding aid to digital collection:
http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/search/searchterm/"Alabama%20Pamphlets%20Collection"/field/all
/mode/all/conn/and/display/100/order/sort/ad/asc
[0032] Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection [digital collection]
Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History, P.O. Box 300100, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Description: This digital collection contains over 15,000 images from the Alabama Department of Archives and History holdings. Includes a cartoon of a lynching of a carpet bagger and scalawag, "those great pests of Southern society," from the Independent Monitor, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, September 1, 1868; photographs and "Warning Sent by the Klan" (1871) from Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment, by J. C. Lester and D. L. Wilson (1884; reprinted in 1905, with an introduction by Walter L. Fleming); and photographs of a Ku Klux Klan induction ceremony at East Lake Park in Birmingham, Alabama, 1923; a Ku Klux Klan gathering in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1924; and Ku Klux Klan Rally Day at the Opelika District Fair, 1925.
Finding aids:
http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/landingpage/collection/photo
http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/search/collection/photo
[0032a] Alabama Republican Party Records, 1928-1984, RG 545
Location: Special Collections & Archives, Draughon Library, Auburn University, 231 Mell Street, Auburn, Alabama 36849
Description: The Alabama Republican Party was established in 1867. Records include administrative office files; attorney's papers; convention files; subject files (1960-1984); contribution and pledge files (1971-1977); publications and general campaign materials (1970-1984); Young Republican Federation of Alabama files (1965-1971); resumes and files on elected officials, both Republican and Democrat; photographs; and clippings. Series: Campaigns & Elections, contains files on Campaign Material - 1960 Nixon for President; George C. Wallace; Barry Goldwater; Richard M. Nixon; Ronald Reagan; Busing; SALT II; Vietnam; and Voting Rights Act. Series: Elected Officials, contains files on Sen. John Sparkman, Gov. George Wallace, and Pres. Richard M. Nixon. Series: National Republican Party, contains files on Busing; Desegregation - Busing; SALT Talks; Pres. Richard M. Nixon; Republican National Committee (George Bush (Chairman), Bob Dole (Chairman)); Young Republicans and J. Edgar Hoover; Young Republican Federation of Alabama; and Young Republicans for Nixon. Series: Newspapers & Clippings, contains files on Sen. Barry Goldwater, Rep. William E. Miller, Pres. Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Sen. John Sparkman, George Wallace, Alabama Conservative Party, Desegregation, and Nixon Administration. Series: Miscellaneous Files, contains files on Newspaper Clippings - Richard Nixon - 1964-66, and Republican National Convention - 1972. Series: Photographs and Biographical Data, contains files on George Bush, Robert Dole, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jack Kemp, William F. Knowland, and Strom Thurmond. Series: Campaign Materials, 1970-81, contains files on Young Republicans; Ripon Forum; Issue of American Conservative Union Battleline - March 1980; and Issues of Challenge - Natl Federation of Republican Women, 1980-81. Series: Subject Files & 1971 Southern Conference, contains files on Alabama Young Republicans, Americans for Constitutional Action, and Senator Bob Dole. Series: Miscellaneous Files, contains files on Congressman Larry McDonald, Phil Gramm, George Bush, Congressman Philip Crane, Robert Dole, Honorable Barry Goldwater, S.I. Hayakawa, Jesse Helms, Newt Gingrich, Jack Kemp, Gerald R. Ford, Moral Majority, American Conservative Union, Fund for a Conservative Majority, Lyn Nofziger, Ronald Reagan, Citizens for the Republic (Ronald Reagan), Young Republicans, and George Wallace.
Websites with information:
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts.php
Finding aid:
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/545.htm
[0032b] Alabama. Tenth Judicial Circuit Court. State of Alabama vs. Robert E. Chambliss Trial Transcript, 1977, AR85 [digital collection]
Location: Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Central Library, Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203-2794
Description: On the morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, a bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan exploded outside the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, an African American church in Birmingham, Alabama. The blast did extensive damage to the church building and killed four girls inside. Several other members of the congregation also suffered injuries. In 1977 Robert E. Chambliss was tried and convicted for his role in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing. This collection contains the transcript for Robert E. Chambliss's 1977 trial, 15 photographs showing bomb damage to the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and surrounding area, and trial notes and dispatches produced by Associated Press reporter Garry Mitchell.
Finding aid:
http://www.bplonline.org/resources/archives/aids/AR85.pdf
Finding aid to online collection:
http://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4017coll8/id/13854
[0033] Alabama Textual Materials Collection [digital collection]
Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History Digital Collections, P.O. Box 300100 / 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Description: This collection contains a selection of textual materials such as letters, diaries, minutes, fliers, clippings, and excerpts from books. Contains Prescript of the * * [order of the Ku Klux Klan], 1867; Revised and Amended Prescript of the Order of the * * * [Ku Klux Klan], 1868; a flyer for a rally sponsored by the United Americans for Conservative Government; anti-Communist flier issued by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama; Official Document (Grand Dragon of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama), IV.10 (June 1926), including a letter from H. W. Evans, Imperial Wizard, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan; a flier issued by the Cullen A. Battle Klan in Tuskegee, Alabama, listing the issues the Ku Klux Klan stands for and against; copies of The States Rights Advocate (the official publication of the Montgomery County Citizens' Council), 1956, 1961; Inaugural address of Governor George Wallace, delivered at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, 1963, in which Wallace makes his famous statement against integration; a copy of The White American, "official organ of the American States' Rights Party," 1964; a letter from Charles A. Lindbergh to Governor George Wallace, 1973; George Wallace campaign materials; "The Shoppers Guide to Communist Imports" (Miami, Fla., Committee to Warn of the Arrival of Communist Merchandise on the Local Business Scene); "Communism Is Our Mutual Enemy / Help Us to Fight It,"