Location: Center for the Study of Political Graphics, 3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 103, Culver City, California 90230
Description: The collection of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) contains over 85,000 domestic and international political posters and prints relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change. Topics include abortion, abortion clinics, anti-abortion, Anti-Arab racism, anti-black, anti-choice politicians, anti-Communism, anti-gay violence, anti-immigration, anti-labor laws, anti-Sandinista, anti-Semitism, anti-socialism, brainwashing, criminalization of abortion, Jim Bakker, Tammy Faye Bakker, British National Party (BNP), California Proposition 8 (anti gay marriage), Christian fundamentalists, climate change, Roy Cohn, Colorado Amendment 2 (anti-gay rights), Derek Beackon, Communism, conservatism, cults, William E. Dannemeyer, Tom DeLay, Robert Dole, evolution, extreme right-wing politics, far-right, fascism, forced sterilization, Gerald Ford, Newt Gingrich, guns, hate, Jesse Helms, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, Holocaust, homophobia, J. Edgar Hoover, House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Iran-Contra Affair, Islamophobia, Japanese internment, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act), Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, Ed Meese, Minutemen, Karl E. Mundt, Nazi Germany, Nazi skinheads, Nazism, neo-Nazi organizations, Richard Nixon, Oliver North, Operation Rescue, patriotism, population control, The Potsdam Conference (1945), pro-gun movement, pro-life, pro-life movement (abortion), pro-life murder, racial integration, racial segregation, racism, racism in the U.S., radical right, Ronald Reagan, the red menace, Red-baiting, reproductive rights, Republican Party for George Wallace, right to bear arms, right-wing, right-wing extremism, right-wing extremists, right-wing fraternities, right-wing fundamentalism, right-wing political parties, right wing politicians, right-wing politics, right-wing propaganda, right wing religious groups, right wing violence, right-wing young organizations, Karl Rove, Antonin Scalia, Phyllis Schlafly, sex education, socialism, Jimmy Swaggart, swastikas, terrorism, Margaret Thatcher, Clarence Thomas, Strom Thurmond, John Tower, ultra-conservative, ultra-right, Unidad Nicaragüense Opositora (UNO), violence against abortion providers, violence against women, George Wallace, white supremacy, World Anti-Communist League (WACL), and xenophobia.
Finding aid:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8959k7m/entire_text/
[0510] Central American Historical Institute Records, 1980-1993, DG 174
Location: Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399
Description: Central American Historical Institute (CAHI) was established in 1982 as an independent educational and research center based at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. It was affiliated with the Instituto Histórico Centroamericano, a 25-year-old documentation center of the Jesuits of Central America; worked in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. The CAHI ceased operation around 1993. This collection contains reference files on various Central American countries in the 1980s, especially concerning work of Jesuits in Central America; most material is about El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua; in English and Spanish. Files on the Contras, Godoy and Right Wing, 1989- , Right Perspectives, 1990's, The Right, The Right II, Contra Supporters: Recent Activity 1991, North and Company Aid to Contras, El Salvador- ARENA (Alianza Republicana Nacionalista - Nationalist Republican Alliance, a right-wing party founded by Roberto D'Aubuisson), El Salvador- Death Squads, CIA in El Salvador, CIA in Guatemala, and CIA in Nicaragua.
Websites with information:
http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DGList/DGlist.expanded.htm
Finding aid:
http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG151-175/dg174caha.htm
[0511] Central American Political Ephemera Collection, 1983-1986, MSS 684 BC [ephemera collection]
Location: Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, Zimmerman Library 1st floor, West Wing, MSC05 3020, University of New Mexico, 800 Yale Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131
Description: This collection contains materials from Central American political campaigns during the mid-1980s, including political material from Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, and El Salvador. The majority of the collection consists of campaign pamphlets and information about candidates running for the presidency in the 1985 and 1986 elections. In addition to the material specific to the presidential campaigns are numerous stickers, calenders and newspapers. Among the newspapers are multiple issues of Nicaragua Hoy and Hacia Nuestra Liberación, publications of the reactionary, counter-revolutionary forces in Nicaragua, the Contras (Unidad Nicaragüense Opositora (UNO)). Contains copies of Por el rescate democrático de Nicaragua (Unidad Nicaragüense Opositora (UNO), 1986); Hacia Nuestra Liberación (Unidad Nicaragüense Opositora (UNO), 1985-1986); Nicaragua Hoy (Unidad Nicaragüense Opositora (UNO), 1985-1986); and miscellaneous Contra-related materials, 1985-1986.
Finding aid:
http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=nmu1mss684bc.xml
[0512] Central office of the State Security Service, 1945-1948, Record Group 305
Location: Department of Archival Collections of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Na Struze 3, Prague 1, Czech Republic
Description: Materials of diverse character, mainly consisting of messages and investigations of activities of former members and functionaries of Nazi and collaborationist organizations (including the NSDAP, Freikorps, Wehrwolf, Hitlerjugend, Kuratorium, Vlajka). Screening of national and state loyalty of public and state employees. Enquiries, messages and protocol testimonies of persons detained in illegal state border crossings. Reports and investigations into activities of resistance and partisan groups. Reports on the activities of various associations in the Czech Socialist Republic (CSR), their characteristics, political focus and findings on functionaries and members, including the Rotary Club, Association of Friends of Democratic States, Association of Friends of the USA, spiritists, Masons, Jewish and Zionist associations, etc.
Websites with information:
http://www.abscr.cz/en/guide-to-the-collections
http://www.abscr.cz/en/guide-to-the-collections-a
http://www.abscr.cz/en/guide-to-the-collections-a-description
Finding aid:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110904211424/http://www.abscr.cz/data/pdf/abs/inventar-305.pdf
[0513] Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine et Mémorial de la Shoah
Location: 17, rue Geoffroy-l'Asnier, 75004 Paris, France
Description: In 1943 the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, or CDJC) was founded in Grenoble as a clandestine organisation. Its specific objective was to document the Shoah by pooling the information of Jewish organizations and scholars and by collecting documentary evidence. After the liberation of France in 1944, the founder, Isaac Schneersohn, and Léon Poliakov, in charge of research, moved the CDJC to Paris to save it from destruction and to sequester the archives of the Vichy government and of the German occupying forces. Among documents that they obtained were the French archives of the Gestapo, part of the Wehrmacht archives, and Vichy documents. Later the CDJC became one of the official repositories of the Nuremberg trial documents. In addition to the minutes and background documentation for the trials, the CDJC obtained original archival material and the personal archives of Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi Party ideologue and ERR chief. (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) was a looting agency set up in July-August 1940 to spoliate western Europe's cultural heritage, but especially Jewish libraries, archives, and private art collections and, later on in the war, to pillage cultural objects in south east Europe and the former Soviet Union.) The archive collections currently contain more than thirty million archive documents, including papers from the Direction Régionale de l'Aryanization Economique de Toulouse; documents from the French Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (General Commission on Jewish Affairs), the agency principally active in stripping French Jews of their property and transcripts of the trials of the top level of management; the archives of Georges Montandon (1879-1944), a Swiss