Finding aid:
http://consortiumlibrary.org/archives/FindingAids/hmc-0375.html
[0039] Hugh Meade Alcorn, Jr., Papers, 1957-1963, ML-85
Location: Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College, 6065 Webster Hall, Hanover, NH 03755
Description: The materials that make up the collection are exclusively concerned with the years that Meade Alcorn (1907-1992) served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee during the second Eisenhower Administration (1957-1959). The materials themselves consist of correspondence, clippings, newsletters, pamphlets, reports, proposals, financial records, news releases, and many other items. Includes "What Is 'The Law of the Land?'" by Samuel B. Pettengill, in Human Events, October 5, 1957; "Who Profits From Free Enterprise?" by Benjamin F. Fairless, in Spotlight for the Nation, published by Committee For Constitutional Government, Inc., New York, 1954; excerpt from Businessmen's Complex, by Raymond Moley; The State of the Unions, excerpts, by Ralph W. Gwinn, M.C., at Allegheny County League of Women Voters, Pittsburgh, February 27, 1958; "Why the Republicans Lost the Congress and How They Can Win It Back," by Ralph W. Gwinn, in Human Events, January 26, 1957; What Has Happened to the Republican Party in Michigan?, by Barry Goldwater; at United Republican Dinner, Detroit, January 20, 1958; Proposal: 1958 Budget Proposals, Young Republican National Federation, John M. Ashbrook, Chairman; December 1957; and Exclusive, by Fulton Lewis, Jr., September 18, 1957.
Websites with information:
http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/index_ab.html
Finding aid:
http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ml85.html
[0039a] Alert America Association flyers, 1962-1969
Location: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Box 90185, 103 Perkins Library, Durham, North Carolina 27708
Description: The Alert Americans Association (also known as Alert America Association) was an extreme right organization based in Los Angeles, Calif. Collection comprises flyers distributed by the Alert America Association during the 1960s. Topics include the Nixon administration, promotion of segregation, the Vietnam War, and opposition to the United Nations and to fluoridated water.
Websites with information:
https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/881278132
http://www.worldcat.org/title/alert-america-association-flyers-1962-1969/oclc/881278132
[0040] Fred D. Alexander Papers, 1908, 1931-1998 (bulk 1946-1980), MS0091
Location: J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
Description: Public papers of Frederick Douglas Alexander (1910-1980), a Charlotte politician and civil rights leader. Includes a copy of "Here is what the 'Civil Rights' proposals would do in Georgia: F. E. P. C. explained," a pamphlet (ca. 1948) supporting Herman Talmadge for governor of Georgia against Ellis Arnall, who is condemned for his support of the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC); a flier (1950) from Know the Truth Committee accusing U. S. Senator Frank Porter Graham of favoring "mingling of the races" and urging support for his opponent Willis Smith; a letter (ca. 1956) from Patriots of North Carolina, Inc. opposing school integration; a report (ca. 1957-58) from North Carolina Virginia office of Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith concerning Ku Klux Klan activities in North Carolina; the platform (n.d.) of the North Carolina Defenders of States Rights, Inc.; and a letter (9-25-72) from Democrats for Helms supporting Jesse Helms for the United States Senate.
Websites with information:
https://libaws.uncc.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts
https://web.archive.org/web/20150929061913/http://specialcollections.uncc.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts
Finding aids:
https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/427
http://library.uncc.edu/manuscript/ms0091
https://library.uncc.edu/manuscript/ms0091
[0041] Robert Jackson Alexander Papers, 1890(1945)-1999, MC 974
Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, 169 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Description: A professor of economics at Rutgers University, Robert J. Alexander (1918-2010) conducted interdisciplinary research focused on Latin America, where he frequently traveled to conduct interviews, Spain (particularly the opposition to Franco) and international radical movements. Subject files include files on fascist, radical, and national revolutionary parties in Latin America. Folders on Communists and International Right Opposition, 1930-1940; Fascists--Argentina, 1925-1956; Fascists--Bolivia, 1942-1976; Fascists--Bolivia--Falange, 1967-1982; Fascists--Brazil, 1934-1965; Fascists--Chile--Nazis, 1933-1966; Fascists--Chile--Partido Nacional (Conservative), 1969-1972; Fascists--Colombia, 1940-1942; Fascists--Latin America--History and Miscellany, 1933-1944; Fascists--Mexico, 1935-1958; and U.S.--Politics--Conservatives, 1990; U.S.--Politics--New Right, 1983-1986.
Reference:
John D. French, "The Robert J. Alexander Interview Collection," Hispanic American Historical Review, 84:2 (2004), pp. 315-326, https://fds.duke.edu/db/attachment/41
Websites with information:
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/scua/manuscripts
http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/manuscripts/manuscripts.shtml
Finding aids:
http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/alexanderb.html
http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/alexanderf.html
[0041a] Ruth Alexander Papers, 1920-1973, Coll. 05136
Location: American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University Ave., Laramie, WY 82071
Description: Ruth Alexander (1899- ) was a conservative writer and lecturer. She was associate editor of "Finance" from 1942-1944, participated in several of the American Economic Foundation's "Wake Up, America!" radio broadcasts from 1940-1946, and was an editorial columnist for the New York "Mirror" from 1944-1963. She wrote a weekly column entitled "Our America" from the 1950s to the early 1970s. Alexander also had a short career as a concert pianist from 1929-1930. Collection includes manuscripts of "Our America" columns (1957-1973); transcripts of her "Wake Up, America!" broadcasts (1940-1946); speeches; manuscripts of articles by Alexander; photographs; a scrapbook of her career; and miscellaneous other materials.
Websites with information:
https://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/_files/collection_guides/journalism_guide_2005_ed2016.pdf
https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/30790521
http://www.worldcat.org/title/papers-1920-1973/oclc/30790521
Finding aids:
https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wyu-ah05136.xml
http://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/_files/pdffa/05136.pdf
[0042] Bruce Alger Collection, 1954-1979, MA 83-11
Location: Texas/Dallas History & Archives, Dallas Public Library, 1515 Young St, Dallas, TX 75201
Description: Alger (1918– ) was a U.S. representative from Texas (1954-1964). The Bruce Alger Collection begins with campaign and election in 1954, continues through his tenure in office and follows his political interests and activities up to 1979. Correspondence, speeches, legislative files, photographs, tape recordings, campaign material, unpublished manuscripts, and books. Files on American Challenge, American Coalition of Patriotic Societies, Americans for Constitutional Action (ACA), Anti-Semitic pamphlets, Cong. John Ashbrook, Communism, Conservative organizations, Conservative Society of America, Constitution Party,