California: The American Guards, 1940. The American Guards was a short-lived fascist organization in California founded and led by Benjamin Franklin Ballard. Ballard was quoted as saying, “The Jews and all who follow them will be crucified like rats as soon as we real Americans get together” (qtd. in an..... More
Union, New Jersey: Common Sense, [1953]. Large newsprint sheet (17” x 22”) printed on both sides, photographs of prominent Jews. Horizontal and vertical folds, 1” closed tear at top edge, a couple of small punctures, light edgewear, better than typically seen. Three copies in OCLC (Hebrew Union, Harvard & Univ..... More
[Chicago: American Vigilant Intelligence Federation?], [1931]. First edition. An unattributed study of Communism organized into the following sections: I. Russia II. Communism in the U.S.A. III. Tentacles IV. Aims and Methods of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. V. The Present Day. Although no author or publisher is listed, this..... More
Greensboro: Confederate Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, [198-]. An 8 ½” x 11” letterhead sheet featuring a crude drawing of a mounted Klansman holding a Confederate flag, with accompanying envelope. Letterhead is Fine; the envelope is sealed due to glue aging, small dampstain to bottom corner. Letterhead from Frazier Glenn..... More
St. Louis: Christian Nationalist Crusade, [ca. 1951]. First edition. Anti-Semitic, conspiracist propaganda from Gerald L. K. Smith’s Christian Nationalist Crusade in the form of a purported letter from F.D.R. to a Zabrousky, a “Jew Zionist leader” and emissary of Stalin. The letter portrays F.D.R.’s treasonous desire to carve up the..... More
The Long Island Council of Long Island AFT locals, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, [1963]. An expose of the radical right’s attempt to undermine the public school system by censoring textbooks, banning authors, capturing school board and PTA seats, and gagging teachers through intimidation. The five right-wing members of the..... More
Los Angeles: Christian Nationalist Crusade, [1971]. First edition. A six paneled brochure folded to 3 ¾” x 8 ½”. Small stain to front panel, else Fine. Three copies in WorldCat (Harvard, MSU, Northwestern). A summary of the “Report of Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of..... More
Union, New Jersey: Christian Educational Association, 1957. First edition. A verbose and visual anti-Semitic poster featuring many of the motifs regularly employed by Conde McGinley’s Christian Educational Association. The first page discusses the Jewish role in the Communist Conspiracy and includes a paper label affixed to the top featuring a...... More
n.p.: American Student Nationalists, [ca. 1939]. A scarce broadside manifesto for a pre-war, isolationist, anti-Communist student group, whose slogan, “Keep America Out of War By Keeping Communism Out of America!!” belies their subtle anti-Semitism and overt anti-Zionism. At the outset the group argues, “America entered the first world war not..... More
Los Angeles: Christian Nationalist Crusade, [1959?]. First edition. Stapled, black wrappers (5 ¼” x 8”), 29 pp. A couple of tiny chips to spine ends and bottom corner, cheap paper browning, but about Near Fine. Three copies in OCLC (Michigan State, Univ. of Missouri, Fuller Theological Seminary). “The hidden hand in..... More
[West Yorkshire?]: British Movement, [200-?]. A 5 ¾” x 8 ¼” leaflet printed in blue and red and calling for a rebirth of National Socialism and the establishment of a “folkish state built on the principals [sic] of Blood and Soil, Race and Nation, Folk and Family. The tiny, contemporary..... More
Dallas: American Nazi Party, [196-]. A flyer by the Dallas unit of the American Nazi Party advocating the repatriation of all American blacks as the “greatest blessing to the Negro and white races in the years to come.” The group quotes Marcus Garvey (“A Negro world is what we want”)..... More
n.p. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, [1976]. An unnumbered issue of this short-lived Klan newsletter published as a joint effort between various Klaverns in the mid-Atlantic representing the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Issues were alternately printed in Trenton, NJ, and Reading, PA. It was apparently initiated by..... More
Amsterdam: The Northern League, 1963. 4to; one sheet folded, 4 pp. + supplement laid in. A single issue of the Northern League’s monthly bulletin, which features an editorial, a letter from a Swiss reader on the influx of foreign laborers (followed by an article addressing the same), an article on..... More
Amsterdam: The Northern League, 1963. 4to; self wraps, 6 pp. + supplement laid in. A single issue of the Northern League’s monthly bulletin, which features an editorial, “Teutonic Belief in a Fixed Destiny,” a review of a booklet, “Future United Europe,” “How the National Press Distorts Racial News in America”..... More
London: The Order, [ca. 1992]. The third issue of this Combat 18-related, neo-Nazi publication that features an interview with Bob Heick from American Front. Heick characterizes American Front as a “Revolutionary Nationalist organization” that agrees with the racial ideals of National Socialism, but is economically Third Positionist or Strasserist. Two..... More
Hicksville, New York: Congressional Reprint Service, [1964]. A sardonically titled 8 ½” x 11” anti-UN flyer published following the revolutionary uprising in Zanzibar led by John Okello. The only copy in WorldCat (at the Univ. of Kansas) is attributed to the right wing activist, Gen. Edwin A. Walker, although we..... More
Los Angeles: National Pure Water Committee, [1954?]. First edition. Tri-fold brochure (3 ” x 8 ½”) from a Christian Nationalist Crusade front group called the National Pure Water Committee claiming that water fluoridation is a Communist plot to brainwash Americans. Unfolds to a photostat reproduction of a Fort Worth newspaper..... More
n.p.: n.p., [196-?]. An unattributed racist NAACP membership application very similar to one we’ve handled for the National Association for the Abolition of Caucasian People (NAACP). Questions include “Number of children claimed for relief check,” “Number of illegitimate children (if known),” “List of white schools you would like to attend,”..... More
New York: New York Council, and Youth Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1961. An 8 ½” x 11” hand-lettered, mimeographed flyer for an anti-HUAC event featuring Pete Seeger, Carl Braden and Frank Wilkinson held at the St. Nicholas Sports Center in NYC on April 21, 1961. The..... More
n.p.: [Ku Klux Klan?], [ca. 1984]. A two-sided 8 ½” x 11” flyer that reprints pseudo-scientific facts concerning the stunted evolutionary development of Blacks and cites statistics from various government reports on the disproportionate number of violent attacks by blacks on white. The recto lists 10 “facts” from an unidentified..... More
Ware Shoals, SC: The Disciples of the Ku Klux Klan, 1993. A small collection of material from the South Carolina-based Disciples of the Ku Klux Klan, a small Klan splinter group led by Robert and Paula Davenport of Ware Shoals, SC. Includes a blank application for a permit to hold..... More
Overland, MO: White American Freedom Fighters, [199-]. A small leaflet from the Ku Klux Klan-affiliated White American Freedom Fighters advocating for white workers’ rights. Bemoans affirmative action, minority studies, and political pandering to minority groups without addressing the needs of white workers. Advertises a large information packet for $1.00. Small sheet..... More
Bound Brook / Oxford, NJ: Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1980s. A substantial collection of material published by the New Jersey Knights of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1980s under Grand Wizards Richard Bondira and Dan Dalrymple. The collection contains both internal documents and material distributed for publicity..... More
Chattanooga: Tennessee Society to Maintain Segregation, [ca. 1956]. Three items from the Tennessee Society to Maintain Segregation, one of a number of Tennessee segregationist groups to emerge following Brown v. Board of Education (1954). It was founded by Arthur Canada, a member of the Printing Pressmen’s Union and a resident..... More