Description: John and Jane Adams collected ephemera among other areas of collecting. The series Political 1903-1996, subseries Campaign Mailers 1903-1992, contains files on Alert America Association, American Conservative Union, American Committee on Immigration Policies, John Ashbrook, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, Citizen's Foreign Aid Committee, Conservative Book Club, Council for Statehood, Federation for Constitutional Government, First National Directory, Freedom Bulletin, Barry Goldwater, Jesse Helms, The Herald of Freedom, Human Events, The Independent American, International Youth Federation For Freedom, John Birch Society, William F. Knowland, Alfred Landon, The Manion Forum, Minutemen, National Coalition of American Patriots, National Economic Council, The National Program Letter, The National Right to Work Committee, National Tax Limitation Committee, The New Right, Omni Publications, John Rousselot, The Spotlight, Think!, United States Anti-Communist Congress, George C. Wallace, and Albert Wedemeyer.
Finding aid:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8416zrt/entire_text/
[0016] June N. Adamson Papers, 1870-2003 (bulk 1943-2003), MS.2739
Location: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library, 121 John C. Hodges Library, 1015 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996-1000
Description: June N. Adamson (1922-2009) was a newspaper reporter, student, and University of Tennessee Professor of Journalism. This collection contains correspondence, research and teaching files, student work, articles, newspaper clippings, notes, and manuscripts. Included is research related to Adamson's unpublished book The Lit Stick of Dynamite, which documents the desegregation of Clinton (Tennessee) High School in 1956 and its bombing in 1958. Adamson's extensive research for this work includes newspaper clippings, photographs, redacted FBI files on the bombing and on John Frederick Kasper (who organized a White Citizens' Council in Clinton), and taped interviews with various participants. There are files on Admiral John Crommelin, Citizens' Councils, Ezra Pound, John Kasper, Ku Klux Klan, Judge Robert L. Taylor, and the Edward R. Murrow program "Clinton and the Law," aired on CBS on January 6, 1957.
Reference:
Jane S. Row, "Breaking the Gender Barrier: June Adamson," The Library Development Review (University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, Tennessee) (2009-2010), pp. 2-4, http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_libdevel/103 and https://ww
w.academia.edu/500202/On_the_White_Right_Christian_Side_of_Every_Issue_The_Life_and_Death_of_Byron_de_la_Be
ckwith.
Websites with information:
http://libguides.utk.edu/c.php?g=188664&p=1245273
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=2077
Finding aids:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100628002316/
http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/f/fa/fulltext/2739.html
http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/spc/view?docId=ead/0012_001145_000000_0000/0012_001145_000000_0000.xml
[0017] Lee J. Adamson Papers, 1954-1969, Coll. 086
Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Knight Library, 2nd floor North, Mail: UO Libraries--SPC, 1299 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1299
Description: Adamson was a Washington certified accountant, conservative activist, speaker, and writer. He was a member of Americans for Constitutional Action and the John Birch Society. His writings include a periodic commentary about national and international affairs titled "Liberty Line," which was published in Rank and File (Portland, OR), and editorials for newspapers and journals. Much of the correspondence is also about conservative and anti-Communist individuals and activities. Some of the persons and organizations represented are Bryton Barron, the Church League of America, Pedro A. del Valle, William E. Fort, Jr., Housewives Organized for Better Living, the John Birch Society, Mothers' Crusade for Victory Over Communism, Phyllis Schlafly, and Robert Welch. The papers also contain about 1,000 articles and essays by Adamson, including the "Liberty Line" commentaries, and numerous writings by others. Speeches and Writings by Morris A. Bealle, A. G. Blazey, Eric D. Butler, Christian Crusade, John De Courcy, Martin Dies, Barry Goldwater, Ashley E. Holden, J. Edgar Hoover, Craig Hosmer, T. Robert Ingram, Hatley Norton Mason, J. B. Matthews, Manuel and Lucille Miller, Jozef Mlot-Mroz, Leonard E. Read, Phyllis Schlafly, SPX Research Associates, W. P. Strube, Jr., The John Birch Society, The Fair Play Committee, R. B. Thieme, Jr., Strom Thurmond, Lawrence Timbers, Edwin A. Walker, and Henry J. Walters. Subject files on A Texan Looks at Lyndon (J. Evetts Haley), American Opinion Speakers Bureau, Anti-Communist Action, Anti-Semitism, Atlantic Union, Berachah Church, Bookmailer News, Eric D. Butler, China (Communist), China (Nationalist), Christian Challenge, Church League of America, Committee of One Million, Communism, Conservatism, Conspiracy, Extremism, Fluoridation, Barry Goldwater, A. G. Heinsohn, Jr., J. Edgar Hoover, House Committee on Un-American Activities, Immigration, Income Tax, T. Robert Ingram, Integration, Intelligence Digest, John Birch Society, Liberty Amendment, Mental health, Metropolitan government, Moral rearmament, National Committee of Christian Laymen, Operation Abolition, Operation Water Moccasin, Race, Archibald E. Roberts, George Lincoln Rockwell, Philippa Schuyler, Segregation, St. Thomas' Episcopal Church (Houston, Texas), The Phoenix Report, The Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation, United Nations, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Vietnam, World Government, and Richard Wurmbrand.
Websites with information:
http://researchguides.uoregon.edu/scua-politics/conservative
http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/nwdalinks.html
http://library.uoregon.edu/tools/blogs/scua/check-out-lee-j-adamson-papers/
http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/guides/conservative.html
http://janus.uoregon.edu/record=b1970574
Finding aids:
http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/print/ark:/80444/xv71491
http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv71491
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv71491
[0017a] Affirmation Vietnam records, 1965-1966, Series No. 81
Location: Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University Archives, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
Description: Affirmation Vietnam, a student organization in favor of the Vietnam War, was established in December 1965 by a group of Emory University students. In February 1966, the organization staged a rally in support of the war, featuring well-known local and national politicians, at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Atlanta, Ga. The rally included speeches by Secretary of State Dean Rusk (1909-1994), conservative activist Anita Bryant, Georgia Governor Carl Edward Sanders (b. 1925), Georgia's United States Senators Richard Brevard Russell (1897-1971) and Herman Eugene Talmadge (1913-2002), Georgia Congressmen Charles Longstreet Weltner and James Armstrong Mackay (1919-2001), and Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen. The collection consists of the records of Affirmation Vietnam, including a scrapbook, newspaper clippings, progress reports, press releases, and an event program, chiefly related to the rally.
Finding aids:
http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/eua0081affirmationvietnam/
http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/eua0081affirmationvietnam/printable/
[0017b] The Africa Fund records, 1952-2001 (bulk 1979-1997)
Location: Amistad Research Center, Inc., Tilton Hall, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118
Description: The Africa Fund, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, was founded in 1966 by the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). The records cover the era independence movements on the African continent against the British, Dutch, French, German, and Portuguese colonial governments. Series 3: Research, 1952-2001. Sub-Series 2: South Africa, 1956-1998, contains files on Right Wing, 1989-1982, and Right Wing, 1988. Sub-Series 3: South Africa-United States, 1964-1998, contains files on Church