New York Anti-Klan Network, 1977-1983
1977-1983
MS 1160
4 boxes
(3.25 linear feet)
Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Records of a social justice, civil rights organizer for the New York Chapter of the National Anti-Klan Network, which formed in 1979. Includes outreach materials, correspondence, and materials from like-minded organizations.-
English
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.
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.
The collection is open for research.
Cite as: New York Anti-Klan Network Collection (MS 1160). Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Gift of Jeff Perry.
Processed by Sarah Tonks, March 2022.
Spiegel, Mike
Duke, David, 1950-
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. Civil Rights Division
National Anti-Klan Network
Greensboro Justice Fund
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (U.S.)
Southern Poverty Law Center
Klanwatch Project
Sojourner Truth Organization
National Lawyers Guild
Those United to Fight Fascism
Klan Youth Corps
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
New York Anti-Klan Network
People Against White Supremacy
Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Racism against Black people
Activists--United States
Civil rights
Political activists--United States
Handbills
Newsletters
Correspondence
Newspaper clippings
Official reports
Color slides
1
1.
[Anti-defamation league of B'nai B'rith]
1979 Nov. - 1980 Oct.
1
2.
[Anti-klan statements/handouts from multiple groups/orgs.]
1980-1981
3
2.
Badayev, A.
The Bolsheviks in the Tsarist Duma
1929
3
3.
Chalmers, David M.
Hooded Americanism; The History of the Ku Klux Klan
1965
1
3.
[Correspondence from D. Elkin to M. Spiegel concerning KKK]
1981
3
4.
Crawford, Alan
The "New Right" and the Politics of Resentment:
Thunder on the Right
1980
1
4.
[Documents concerning the KKK in the 1920s]
1923-1927
1
5.
[Documents concerning the New York anti-klan network]
1980-1981
1
6.
[Documents concerning the united steelworkers of America and the KKK]
1980
1
7.
"Fascism and anti-fascism in Britain" [sent from Ken]
1981-04-14
1
8.
Fascism and the first amendment
[essay] and Moral Fascism [newspaper]
1979
3
5.
Fisher, William H.
The Invisible Empire; a Bibliography of the Ku Klux Klan
1950
1
9.
"Greensboro justice fund"
[documents/newsletters]
1980 Oct. - 1981 Jul.
1
10.
Greensboro massacre, turn the country upside down to avenge the CWP 5
[slide show]
1979
1
11.
Greensboro massacre, turn the country upside down to avenge the CWP 5
[slide show]
1979
1
12.
Guild notes volumes 9 and 10, National Lawyers Guild
1980 Jun. - 1981 Aug.
1
13.
Interreligious foundation for community organization [newspapers]
1980-1981
3
6.
Jackson, Kenneth T.
The Ku Klux Klan In the City
1967
1
14.
[Jury profile for trial concerning KKK]
1985
1
15.
Judge Bruce Wright [speech on KKK and racism]
1981-01-14
4
1.
[KKK invisible empire t-shirt]
1979
1
16.
[KKK news clippings]
1980
1
17.
[KKK news clippings]
1981
1
18.
[KKK news clippings, continued]
1980
1
19.
Klanwatch [letters and intelligence reports]
1981
4
2.
[Ku Klux Klan robe with red cross on a white shield patch]
1979
1
20.
[Labor unions and the KKK]
1964-1981
1
21.
Law, John, A History of Black People in
America [booklet]
1977
1
22.
Lawrence, Ken [statement on KKK actions]
1981-05-04
1
23.
"Leftist documents"
1980
2
1.
[Letters to/from/concerning New York Anti-Klan Network]
1980-1981
3
7.
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
2
2.
[NAKN official reports, memorandums, announcements/statements]
1981
2
3.
NAKN anti-klan information packet
1980
2
4.
NAKN [pamphlets/newsletters]
1980-1983
2
5.
[Napanoch riot information]
1977
2
6.
National Bar Association [request to attorney general]
1980-04-24
2
7.
[News articles on rise in anti-Semitism]
1980-1981
2
8.
[News clippings concerning leftist ideologies/actions]
1981-1983
2
9.
[Newspaper clippings of KKK acts/violence]
1975-1981
2
10.
New York Anti-Klan Network [handouts/announcements]
1981
2
11.
New York Anti-Klan Network testimony
1981-05-11
2
12.
"Open rejection of... rally to support new African freedom fighters"
1981
2
13.
People against white supremacy [documents]
1981
3
1.
[Personal notes on NAKN information]
1981
2
14.
[Pro-KKK propaganda, newsletters, and newspapers]
1980
2
15.
[Records from 2nd NAKN conference]
1981
2
16.
"Robert Shelton" Penthouse Interview
1978 Nov.
3
8.
Rowe, Gary Thomas Jr.
My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan
1976
2
17.
Smith, Baxter: The resurgence of the KKK
1981 Jan.-Feb.
2
18.
Sojourner Truth Organization, Fighting the Klan
1981 Apr.
2
19.
Southern Fight-Back [newsletters]
1981 Apr.
2
20.
[Steel labor union, list of labor unions at NAKN]
1980
3
9.
Stewart, John L.
KKK Menace the Cross Against People
1980
2
21.
STOP ["save them or perish", packets]
1981
2
22.
Temporary restraining order, Robert Kimmel vs. Invisible Empire of
the Ku Klux Klan
1980
2
23.
T.U.F.F. [newsletters, handouts]
1980
2
24.
T.U.F.F. [pamphlets/announcements]
1980
2
25.
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights news release
1980
3
10.
Xinyang City Printing Factory
The Song of Beijing-Hanzhou Railway Workers: Selected Works of
the February 7th Great Strike Revolution
1974
2
26.
Young Lawyers Division Barrister [magazine]
Spring 1981