Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections

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Bernard F. Davids was an original member of the American Nazi Party under George Lincoln Rockwell and politically active in far-right and white supremacist movements. This collection includes publications and mailings from right-wing organizations, personal correspondence, and an extensive collection of news clippings. Of particular note are internal materials from David Duke's electoral campaigns and from the National Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP).

Overview Harold Covington, active in the 1980s-2010s in the United States, was a neo-Nazi who wrote for, participated in, and ran several right-wing organizations, including but not limited to the Confederate National Congress, National Pioneer Association, National Socialist Liberation Front, National Socialists of America, Thoughtcrimes, and the National Front. He participated with the American Nazi Party in 1979 during the Greensboro Massacre, and a large portion of this collection contans...

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James N. Mason has been a notable member of the National Socialist and White Supremacist movements in the United States. This collection contains his personal papers generated from four decades of political activism.

Overview The John Scoville collection is arranged roughly by topic and in chronological order. It consists largely of newspaper articles and book photocopies regarding a wide range of topics including anti-semitism, fascism, Nazism, the Ku Klux Klan, and homosexuality. The actions of the Nazi party leaders and followers are the main focus, including a substantial amount of articles regarding David Duke, George Lincoln Rockwell, and J.B. Stoner. The collection contains a few photocopies from books...

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This collection contains materials gathered by Karl Allen, an American neo-Nazi who founded the White Party and operated a bookstore on the Party's behalf in the 1960s in Washington, D.C. Includes some bookstore records as well as news clippings, ephemeral publications, correspondence, and other materials related to Allen's socio-political interests.

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This collection consists chiefly of Ku Klux Klan membership guides, but also includes communications relating to Klan members of Pierce County, Washington during the 1920s. Included are pamphlets published by and for Women of the Ku Klux Klan, two photographs of a Klan parade float, and a Klan hood from Tacoma, Washington.

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A collection consisting chiefly of original drafts of newsletter editions produced and published in Florida by feminist Molly Gill within the period 1988 to 1995. Gill's drafts are for her newsletters titled Independent Woman, The Radical Feminist, and The Rational Feminist, published at St. Petersburg, Florida

Overview Willis A. Carto was an American far right political activist, perhaps best known for his promotion of conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial. This collection focuses on Carto's correspondence and reference material from the mid-1940s through 2013 and documents his writings and advocacy for many American rightist political groups, such as the National Segregation Party and the American Heritage Protection Committee. Administrative papers for the publication, The...

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This 93-page report to the United States Commission on Civil Rights by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith describes the activities of racist organizations within the United States, focusing primarily on activities of the Ku Klux Klan from 1978 to 1981. With the report, which is stamped "draft" and "confidential," are copies of correspondence, notes, and memoranda between the Commission and the Anti-Defamation League, obtained from the Commission by Laird Wilcox in 1983.

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The collection consists of a copy of "The Kloran," a handbook for the Klu Klux Klan. Includes the following sections: the officers' titles, opening and closing ceremonies, the "naturalization" ceremony, and titles and explanations.