Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives. Archie Henderson

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СКАЧАТЬ having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable and undesirable traits). From 1929 to 1940, for instance, whites comprised almost four-fifths of the sterilizations. During the 1960s, when social workers had the authority to recommend sterilizations, the number of African American sterilizations increased dramatically (approximately ninety nine percent). In 1971, an act of the legislature transferred the EBNC to the then newly created Department of Human Resources (DHR), an umbrella organization which consolidated more than 300 state agencies. The department later became the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Under a 1973 law, the Eugenics Board was transformed into the Eugenics Commission. Correspondence and subject files relating to the Commission's activities, including minutes of administrative conferences of county welfare directors, attorney general's opinions, biennial reports, 1934-1968, budgets, information on relationships with other state agencies, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous reports, and information on the NC Maternal Health League and the American Birth Control League. Includes 1948 Eugenics Board Manual (Eugenics Board of North Carolina, 1948) and 1960 Eugenics Board Manual (Eugenics Board of North Carolina, 1960).

      Reference:

      Lutz Kaelber, "Eugenics/Sexual Sterilizations in North Carolina," 2014, http://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics/NC/NC.html.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/commentary/315/entry

      Finding aids:

      http://www.sterilizationvictims.nc.gov/documents/DCR_Presentation_Handout_A_%20Finding_Aid.pdf

      http://www.webcitation.org/66tc2DDHL

      [0779] General Records of the Department of Justice [DOJ], Record Group 60, 1790-1989, 1991

      Location: National Archives, 8601 Adelphi Rd, College Park, MD 20740

      Description: Subgroup 60.3. General Records of the Department of Justice, 1849-1989 (bulk 1870-1981). Sub-subgroup 60.3.4. Central files and related records, contains Straight numerical files, 1904-74, including File Number 158260, which identifies names of individuals and organizations that requested the United States government to support a federal anti-lynching bill in the United States Congress; and Classified Subject Files, 1930-1987, Case File: 144-19-233, which includes correspondence relating to an anonymous letter to A. T. Walden, a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) attorney in Atlanta. The case relates to Brown (1954), involving a white citizen conspiring to murder black citizens if they tried to attend white schools. The file also includes correspondence relating to Tom Linder, candidate for governor of Georgia in 1954, and his speech to preserve segregation in public schools.

      References:

      Federal records pertaining to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954), comp. by Walter B. Hill, Jr. and Trichita M. Chestnut, (Reference Information Papers 112, 2004) (National Archives and Records Administration, 2004); Lynching and Race Riots Finding Aid [Record Group 60, General Records of the Department of Justice, Straight Numerical, 1904-1937, File Number 158260 (National Archives at College Park, MD, Textual Research Consultation Room).

      Websites with information:

      http://www.archives.gov/publications/ref-info-papers/112-brown-board-educ/exec-records.html

      http://blogs.archives.gov/blackhistoryblog/2013/03/01/other-finding-aids-relating-to-african-american-history-post-the-black-history-guide-to-civilian-records-in-the-national-archives-and-records-administration/

      Finding aid:

      http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/060.html

      [0779a] Records of the Department of National Health and Welfare, RG 29

      Location: Social and Cultural Archives, Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0N4, Canada

      Description: The Department of National Health and Welfare kept documents relating to the health aspects of abortion. The records contain a copy of A.F. Guttmacher, "Historical Developments of Contraception." Paper presented to the Fourth Conference of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, 1964. Files on family planning, abortion, birth control, abortion law, Alliance for Life, abortion legislation, Right to Life Society, Dr. Henry Morgentaler, and Catholic Women's League of Canada.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/politics-government/Pages/thematic-guides-abortion.aspx

      http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/le-public/005-1142.02-e.html

      [0780] Department of Records Photo Gallery [digital photograph collection]

      Location: New York City Department of Records and Information Services, 31 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10007

      Description: The NYC Municipal Archives Online Gallery contains over 900,000 items digitized from the Municipal Archives' collections, including photographs, maps, motion-pictures, and audio recordings. Includes photographs of political groups monitored by the New York City Police Department's "Alien Squad." These photographs range from Communist Party rallies in Madison Square Garden to an America First Committee rally at Madison Square Garden, May 23, 1941; a meeting of Christian Mobilizers at Innesfield Park, September 20, 1939; and Camp Siegfried, Yaphank, Long Island, and various representatives of the German American Bund at the camp, May 22, 1938. Also includes photographs of General Douglas MacArthur.

      Finding aids:

      http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/gallery/home.shtml

      http://www.nyc.gov/cgi-bin/exit.pl?url=http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/view/group/2965

      [0780a] General Records of the Department of State, 1763-2002, Record Group 59

      Location: National Archives at College Park, MD, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001

      Description: The series Voice of America (VOA) Historical Files, 1946-1953 (National Archives Identifier 5635478), consists of airgrams, charts, correspondence, despatches, magazines, magazine excerpts, maps, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, pamphlets, photographs, posters, questionnaires, reports, scripts, speeches, telegrams, and transcripts related to the post-World War II continuation of the Voice of America (VOA) radio programming. The series contains files on specific VOA radio programs; jamming of VOA broadcasts; radio equipment distribution; transmitters and broadcasting facilities; publicity and audience building; relations with news agencies; evidence of program effectiveness; the U.S. Advisory Committee on Information; Radio Free Europe; newspaper and magazine articles about the VOA; government officials' speeches about the VOA; and the Katyń Massacre. The folders of material concerning the Katyń Massacre are titled "Katyń Forest Massacres I," "Katyń Forest Massacres II," and "Katyń Forest Massacres III."

      Reference:

      Selected Records Relating to the Katyń Forest Massacre at the National Archives and Records Administration, http://www.archives.gov/research/foreign-policy/Katyń-massacre/selected-records.pdf.

      Catalogue description:

      https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5635478

      [0781] Robert DePugh Interview, 1966, Audio 1409A [sound recording]

      Location: Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division, 816 State St., Madison, WI 53706-1417

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