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Group Research Inc. records, 1955-1996
215 linear feetWesley McCune founded Group Research Inc. in 1962 after a successful career as a journalist for such magazines as "Newsweek", "Time", "Life", and "Changing Times. Group Research Inc. was based in Washington DC until ceasing operations in the mid-1990s. The organization collected materials that focus on the right-wing and span four decades. The archive includes information about and by right-wing organizations and activists in the form of publications, correspondence, pamphlets, reports, the newspaper "Congressional Record," and magazine clippings and other ephemera. McCune and his small staff also published an initially bi-monthly but in later years monthly newsletter Group Research Report which kept its subscribers abreast of the latest views and actions of right-wingers.
United States Congress House Committee on Internal Security Box 318
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- United States Congress House Committee on Internal Security
United States Congress House Committee on Internal Security, 1974- Box 318
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- United States Congress House Committee on Internal Security, 1974-
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices records, 1910-1954
335 linear feetUnited States. Congress. House. Committee on the judiciary. …Carnegie endowment for international peace… Report. (To accompany H.R. 1314)., 1912 Box 350
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- United States. Congress. House. Committee on the judiciary. …Carnegie endowment for international
Records of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, 1836-1978, bulk 1933-1975
331.84 linear feetSubseries II.2: United States Congress House Un-American Activities Committee, 1940-1974
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- Subseries II.2: United States Congress House Un-American Activities Committee, 1940-1974
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This small subseries contains a copy ofNational Socialism Illustrated Booklet: Department of State Information on National Socialism and The Nazi Party, Special Committee on Un-American Activitiesand an unpublished appendix to a report containing fliers, publications, letters, research, and other information on many extremist organizations.
Philip C. Pendleton letters, 1813-1863
1 portfolioLetters from Pendleton to his nephew, John P. Kennedy, chiefly on personal and family matters, but containing also comment on the issues of pre-Civil War days.
Yong-jeung Kim papers, 1906-1994, bulk 1940-1975
6 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, speeches, documents, news releases, printed materials, audio recordings, and motion picture film. Of interest in the correspondence are letters from John Foster Dulles, Lieut. Gen. John R. Hodge and Maj. Gen. Archer L. Lerch, the first two U.S. military governors of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Kim Il Sung. His correspondence deals mainly with the issue of reunification. The manuscript series includes articles and speeches by Kim as well as unpublished manuscripts by others assigned to him. The documents are mainly those related to the Korean Affairs Institute. The press clippings and printed materials cover Korean problems from 1945 to 1975 and include Korean language newspapers and periodicals. Thera are also some books and pamphlets from his library, including printed volumes of Korean government documents and other books on Korea from the first two decades of the twentieth century, six electrical transcriptions of radio programs in which Kim was interviewed, and one motion picture film "Liberation of Korea."
Printed Materials, 1901-1931 Box 12, Folder 21
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- Dolph; United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee.; United States. Congress. Senate
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Loose pages: Portrait of the Emperor of Korea (2), Japanese Crucify the Korean Christians because they want to be free from the Japanese domination, 1919 (3)
Cyrus King papers, 1791-1817
6 boxesCollege speeches, notebooks and class exercises relating to King's undergraduate years at Columbia, letters written to and by King during his period in London, documents and incoming correspondence relating to his legal practice, correspondence from his career in Congress, speeches and petitions relating to Maine politics, and materials relating to statehood for the District of Maine, the War of 1812, and related contemporary events. The majority of the correspondence consists of letters written to King by various people, but there are also a number of letters, documents, and miscellaneous papers written by King in the collection.
Bella Abzug papers, 1937-1996, bulk 1970-1986
605 linear feetCongressional papers consisting of correspondence memoranda, speeches, reports, photographs and printed materials relating to her terms in Congress. The collection contains general correspondence and administrative files, as well as extensive subject files on a wide variety of topics with which Abzug was involved while in Congress. Also included are Legislative files, being the chronological files of background material for legislation considered on the House floor, and printed versions of legislation by Abzug and others. The Casework Files, relating to Abzug's advocacy on behalf of constituents involved in civil rights, housing, military, employment and related cases, are closed. Among the major correspondents are Carl Albert, Abraham D. Beame, Hugh L. Carey, Gerald R. Ford, Edward I. Koch, John V. Lindsay, Nelson A. Rockefeller, and Gloria Steinem. Materials added in 1981 include: draft transcripts of an oral history, appointment books, speeches and subject files (particularly on privacy and freedom of information) all interfiled in the collection and campaign materials press releases and newspaper clippings.
National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (U.S.) records, 1951-1985
80 Linear FeetCorrespondence, manuscripts, documents, subject files, case files and printed materials. Both incoming and outgoing correspondence is included. The correspondence is primarily addressed to Clark Foreman, Edith Tiger, Leonard Boudin, and Victor Rabinowitz. The subject files include records of the "Bill of Rights Journal" published by the NECLC along with dinners and the annual Tom Paine Award presentations. Recipients in the past have been Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Shirley Chisolm, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Tom Smothers, Pete Hamill, and NECLC officers Edith Tiger, Leonard Boudin, and Clark Foreman
Varian Fry papers, 1940-1967
9 linear feetThe collection includes the original manuscript of "Surrender on Demand", Mr. Fry's account of his wartime experiences, which was later rewritten for young readers as "Assignment Rescue" (New York, Four Winds Press, 1968). Among the correspondents represented in the collection are Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Roger Baldwin, Norman Thomas, J. Edgar Hoover, and Herman Wouk. In addition to the material relating to the Emergency Relief Committee (later known as the International Rescue Committee), the collection includes correspondence and papers concerning Fry's work as a writer on foreign affairs as well as copies of his books.
James Truslow Adams papers, 1918-1949
15 linear feetThe collection is composed of the correspondence files of the James Truslow Adams. The majority of the letters were written to Adams by various contemporary historians, educators, public figures, business associates, friends and family. The material ranges in date from 1918-1949. The letters are concerned with the following: Adams' literary activities and the publication of his writings; contemporary politics; personal and business affairs; requests and solicitations from individuals and groups for support, etc.; scholarly and academic activities. While very few original letters sent by Adams are present, there exist margin notes in his own hand on incoming letters indicating the nature of his reply. Of special note are six volumes of mounted letters and clippings relating to President Roosevelt's plan to reorganize the United States Supreme Court. Adams was an opponent of the plan.