Background
The National Anti-Klan Network (NAKN) was founded in Atlanta, Georgia by Rev. C.T. Vivian and Anne Braden in 1979, following attacks by armed members of the Ku Klux Klan during a march organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Decatur, Alabama, and the murder of five demonstrators of the Communist Workers Party in Greensboro, North Carolina. The organization grew throughout the 1980s, working with other anti-Klan organizations to spread awareness of the continued violence and growing influence of the Klu Klux Klan.
In 1984, NAKN leadership began examining and reconsidering what the organization stood for, trying to ensure it was focused on working to end white supremacy. In 1985, after this year-long reassessment, the National Anti-Klan Network changed their name to the Center for Democratic Renewal to articulate their broader goals towards fighting racism.
Scope of collection
This small collection contains correspondence, contact lists, anti-Klan handouts, and sources of information used by the New York chapter of the Anti-Klan Network, some of which pertain to the NAKN. It also includes newspaper clippings documenting KKK activity and other examples of racism in the early 1980s, and numerous reports of KKK activity and newsletters from other anti-klan groups. There is also a series of color slides used as part of an organizing slide show entitled "Greensboro Massacre - Turn the Country Upside Down to Avenge the CWP5" that documents the Greensboro murders of the Communist Workers' Party activists and anti-racist/labor organizing.
Inventory
[Anti-defamation league of B'nai B'rith]
1979 Nov. - 1980 Oct.
Box 1: 1.
[Anti-klan statements/handouts from multiple groups/orgs.]
1980-1981
Box 1: 2.
Badayev, A.: The Bolsheviks in the Tsarist Duma
1929
Box 3: 2.
Chalmers, David M.: Hooded Americanism; The History of the Ku Klux Klan
1965
Box 3: 3.
[Correspondence from D. Elkin to M. Spiegel concerning KKK]
1981
Box 1: 3.
Crawford, Alan: The "New Right" and the Politics of Resentment:
Thunder on the Right
1980
Box 3: 4.
[Documents concerning the KKK in the 1920s]
1923-1927
Box 1: 4.
[Documents concerning the New York anti-klan network]
1980-1981
Box 1: 5.
[Documents concerning the united steelworkers of America and the KKK]
1980
Box 1: 6.
"Fascism and anti-fascism in Britain" [sent from Ken]
1981-04-14
Box 1: 7.
Fascism and the first amendment
[essay] and Moral Fascism [newspaper]
ca.1979
Box 1: 8.
Fisher, William H.: The Invisible Empire; a Bibliography of the Ku Klux Klan
1950
Box 3: 5.
"Greensboro justice fund"
[documents/newsletters]
1980 Oct. - 1981 Jul.
Box 1: 9.
Greensboro massacre, turn the country upside down to avenge the CWP 5
[slide show]
1979
Box 1: 10.
Greensboro massacre, turn the country upside down to avenge the CWP 5
[slide show]
1979
Box 1: 11.
Guild notes volumes 9 and 10, National Lawyers Guild
1980 Jun. - 1981 Aug.
Box 1: 12.
Interreligious foundation for community organization [newspapers]
1980-1981
Box 1: 13.
Jackson, Kenneth T.: The Ku Klux Klan In the City
1967
Box 3: 6.
[Jury profile for trial concerning KKK]
ca.1985
Box 1: 14.
Judge Bruce Wright [speech on KKK and racism]
1981-01-14
Box 1: 15.
[KKK invisible empire t-shirt]
1979
Box 4: 1.
[KKK news clippings]
1980
Box 1: 16.
[KKK news clippings]
1981
Box 1: 17.
[KKK news clippings, continued]
1980
Box 1: 18.
Klanwatch [letters and intelligence reports]
1981
Box 1: 19.
[Ku Klux Klan robe with red cross on a white shield patch]
1979
Box 4: 2.
[Labor unions and the KKK]
1964-1981
Box 1: 20.
Law, John, A History of Black People in
America [booklet]
ca.1977
Box 1: 21.
Lawrence, Ken [statement on KKK actions]
1981-05-04
Box 1: 22.
"Leftist documents"
ca.1980
Box 1: 23.
[Letters to/from/concerning New York Anti-Klan Network]
1980-1981
Box 2: 1.
McIlhany, William H. II: Klandestine: The Untold Story of Delmar Dennis and His Role in
the FBI's War Against the Ku Klux Klan
1975
Box 3: 7.
[NAKN official reports, memorandums, announcements/statements]
ca.1981
Box 2: 2.
NAKN anti-klan information packet
ca.1980
Box 2: 3.
NAKN [pamphlets/newsletters]
1980-1983
Box 2: 4.
[Napanoch riot information]
1977
Box 2: 5.
National Bar Association [request to attorney general]
1980-04-24
Box 2: 6.
[News articles on rise in anti-Semitism]
1980-1981
Box 2: 7.
[News clippings concerning leftist ideologies/actions]
1981-1983
Box 2: 8.
[Newspaper clippings of KKK acts/violence]
1975-1981
Box 2: 9.
New York Anti-Klan Network [handouts/announcements]
ca.1981
Box 2: 10.
New York Anti-Klan Network testimony
1981-05-11
Box 2: 11.
"Open rejection of... rally to support new African freedom fighters"
1981
Box 2: 12.
People against white supremacy [documents]
1981
Box 2: 13.
[Personal notes on NAKN information]
ca.1981
Box 3: 1.
[Pro-KKK propaganda, newsletters, and newspapers]
1980
Box 2: 14.
[Records from 2nd NAKN conference]
1981
Box 2: 15.
"Robert Shelton" Penthouse Interview
1978 Nov.
Box 2: 16.
Rowe, Gary Thomas Jr.: My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan
1976
Box 3: 8.
Smith, Baxter: The resurgence of the KKK
1981 Jan.-Feb.
Box 2: 17.
Sojourner Truth Organization, Fighting the Klan
1981 Apr.
Box 2: 18.
Southern Fight-Back [newsletters]
1981 Apr.
Box 2: 19.
[Steel labor union, list of labor unions at NAKN]
1980
Box 2: 20.
Stewart, John L.: KKK Menace the Cross Against People
1980
Box 3: 9.
STOP ["save them or perish", packets]
1981
Box 2: 21.
Temporary restraining order, Robert Kimmel vs. Invisible Empire of
the Ku Klux Klan
1980
Box 2: 22.
T.U.F.F. [newsletters, handouts]
1980
Box 2: 23.
T.U.F.F. [pamphlets/announcements]
1980
Box 2: 24.
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights news release
1980
Box 2: 25.
Xinyang City Printing Factory: The Song of Beijing-Hanzhou Railway Workers: Selected Works of
the February 7th Great Strike Revolution
1974
Box 3: 10.
Young Lawyers Division Barrister [magazine]
Spring 1981
Box 2: 26.
Administrative information
Search terms
Subjects
- Activists--United States
- Civil rights
- Duke, David, 1950-
- Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
- Political activists--United States
- Racism against Black people
- Spiegel, Mike
Genres and formats
- Color slides
- Correspondence
- Handbills
- Newsletters
- Newspaper clippings
- Official reports
