Location: Western Jewish Americana, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Description: The American Jewish Congress (AJC) was founded in 1916, and reorganized in 1920 and 1938. The Northern California Division was officially founded in December 1943. The collection documents the activities of the American Jewish Congress' Northern California Division from 1960 through the mid-1980s. It contains minutes (1960-1982, incomplete), financial records, membership records, annual reports, articles, programs, newsletters, press releases, clippings, correspondence, briefs and published material, and some photographs. Series 4 Subject Files. 1957-1988, contains files on Holocaust, Institute of Historical Review ("Holocaust Debunkers"), Jewish Defense League (JDL), John Birch Society, Nazi Activity in San Francisco (Vincent Suit), and Programs—Nazis and the First Amendment/L. A. Greenfeld
Websites with information:
http://www.magnes.org/collections/archives/western-jewish-americana
http://www.magnes.org/collections/archives/western-jewish-americana/american-jewish-congress-northern-california-division-
Finding aids:
http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/berkeley/bancroft/m2010_702_cubanc.pdf
http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/n2/kt9j49q6n2/files/kt9j49q6n2.pdf
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3m3nf1j3/entire_text/
[0113] American Labor Conference on International Affairs. Records, 1939-1950, TAM.038
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: The American Labor Conference on International Affairs (ALCIA), a non socialist group, was organized in February 1943 by several labor leaders. The primary purpose of ALCIA was to engage in research on international economic and political problems for the benefit of the American labor movement. ALCIA published reports on political, economic, labor, and educational questions, and a monthly magazine entitled Modern Review between March 1947 and 1949, whose contributors included Louis Fischer and Granville Hicks. The collection includes correspondence, resolutions, constitutions and by laws, reports, conference papers, financial papers, press releases, speeches, minutes, memoranda, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, rough drafts of articles, and form letters. Series 1. Correspondence, 1941-1947, n.d., contains subject files on Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Foreign Policy Association, Foundations, and Institute of Pacific Relations. Correspondents include Max Eastman and Wendell Willkie. Series 2. Office files, 1940-1947, n.d., contains Albert Halasi's essay on the Bretton Woods agreements and George Denicke's article on the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, as well as files on Christopher Emmet, Alfred Kohlberg, and Gaetano Salvemini. Series 3. Modern Review files, 1939-1950, n.d., contains a file on Daniel Bell and his work as editor of the Modern Review in 1949. Correspondents include Richard Hofstadter, Seymour Martin Lipset, and Granville Hicks.
Websites with information:
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/fa_index.html
Finding aid:
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_038/
[0114] Records of the American League for an Undivided Ireland (ALFUI), 1940-1965 (bulk 1947-1957)
Location: University Archives and Special Collections, St. John's University, St. Augustine Hall - Room B20, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, New York 11439
Description: The American League for an Undivided Ireland was organized in New York City in March 26, 1947. The aim of the organization was to make every possible effort to abolish the partition of Ireland. The vast majority of the documents are letters between members of the organization, their correspondence with individuals from the U.S. Congress and with members of the Irish government, especially from the Parliament of Northern Ireland. Correspondents include Edward Lodge Curran, Everett M. Dirksen, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., John Davis Lodge, Joe McCarthy, and Burton K. Wheeler.
Websites with information:
http://www.stjohns.edu/libraries/archives/special-collections
http://stjohnsarchives.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/american-league-undivided-ireland/
Finding aid:
http://www.stjohns.edu/sites/default/files/mc_american_league_undivided_ireland.pdf
[0114a] American Left Ephemera Collection, 1894-2008, AIS.2007.11 [digital collection]
Location: Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh, 7500 Thomas Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15208
Description: This is a collection of ephemera accumulated by Dr. Richard J. Oestreicher, Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. The collection includes periodicals, photographs, letters, pamphlets, books, posters, flyers, labels, pins and other objects. The collection contains copies of The Fascist Revival...the Inside Story of the John Birch Society...Who is in it? Who is Behind it? Who Directs and Finances it?, by Mike Newberry, June, 1961 [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735061658757.pdf]; Pattern for American Fascism, by John L. Spivak, September, 1947 [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735061537779.pdf and http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735061659094.pdf]; The Fascist Danger and How to Combat it, by Eugene Dennis, August, 1948 [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735061537613.pdf and http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735066246087.pdf]; The Truth About Father Coughlin, by A.B. Magil, 1935 [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735061659508.pdf]; The Real Father Coughlin, by A.B. Magil, May, 1939 [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/3173506
1658427.pdf]; How Can We Share the Wealth? The Communist Way Versus Huey Long, by Alex Bittelman, April, 1935 [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735061659979.pdf]; The Real Huey P. Long, by Sender Garlin, May, 1935 [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735061658872.pdf]; Treason in Congress: A Record of the Un-American Activities Committee, by Albert E. Kahn (1948 April) [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735061656488.pdf]; San Francisco and the Un-American Activities Committee (San Francisco, Americans for Democratic Action, Northern California Chapter, 1960) [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735061540922.pdf]; The Red Baiters Menace America, by Eugene Dennis (New York, New Century Publishers, 1946) [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/317350
61537621.pdf]; In the Shadow of Liberty, The Inhumanity of the Walter-McCarran Law, by Abner Green (1954) [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735061657205.pdf]; Behind the Lynching of Emmet [sic] Louis Till, by Louis Burnham (New York, Freedom Associates, Inc., 1955) [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735061656116.pdf]; Hate Groups and the Un-American Activities Committee, by David Wesley (New York, NY., Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1962) [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735061657270.pdf]; and Myra Tanner Weiss, Vigilante Terror in Fontana; The Tragic Story of O'Day H. Short and His Family (1946) [on vigilante and other fascist-type formations terrorizing minorities and labor organizations] [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735058194139.pdf]. The Rankin Witch Hunt, By William Z. Foster, December, 1945 [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/317350
61658195.pdf].
Finding aid:
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=ascead;cc=ascead;view=text;rgn=main;didno=US-PPiU-ais200711
[0115] American Legion anti-Communist material, 1946-1952, Collection 793
Location: Special Collections, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 333 S. La Cienega Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California 90211
Description: The American Legion is an American veterans service