Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Project collection, 1940s-2020; 1940s-ongoing

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Summary

Creator:
Southern Poverty Law Center
Abstract:
The SPLC Intelligence Project Collection includes printed materials, serials, organizational literature, pamphlets, clippings, catalogs, fliers, and correspondence from a variety of groups monitored by the SPLC and its contacts between the 1980s and 2010. Included within the collection are many groups falling within the SPLC Klanwatch and Militia Watch projects. Organizations represented in this collection typically promoted anti-semitic, white supremacist, racist, separatist, or anti-Communist views and policies. Other organizations promoted Second Amendment rights, right-wing Christian and American nationalism, Y2K and survivalist preparations, and the rise of the Confederacy. SPLC's interests expanded across the political spectrum to include both right-wing and left-wing extremist literature.
Extent:
115 Linear Feet (85,500 items)
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.10135

Background

Scope and content:

The SPLC Intelligence Project Collection includes printed materials, serials, organizational literature, pamphlets, clippings, catalogs, fliers, and correspondence from a variety of groups monitored by the SPLC and its contacts between the 1980s and 2010. Included within the collection are many groups falling within the SPLC Klanwatch and Militia Watch projects. Organizations represented in this collection typically promoted anti-Semitic, white supremacist, racist, separatist, or anti-Communist views and politics. Other organizations promoted Second Amendment rights, right-wing Christian and American nationalism, Y2K and survivalist preparations, and the rise of the Confederacy. SPLC's interests expanded across the political spectrum to include both right-wing and left-wing extremist literature.

The manuscript portion of the collection includes 11.0 lin. ft. of materials; the remainder of the collection, consisting of serials collected by SPLC from various organizations, has been separated for individual cataloging.

Check the library catalog link for a list of separated serial titles: Separately cataloged serials

Biographical / historical:

The Southern Poverty Law Center is based in Montgomery, Alabama.

Acquisition information:
The Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Project Collection was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2013.
Processing information:

Processed by: Rubenstein Library Staff, March 2014

Web content described by Michelle Runyon, May 2020.

Accessions described in this finding aid: 2013-0048

Arrangement:

Collection is divided into two series: Organizations and SPLC Research, Subjects, and Clippings Files. There are also over 450 serial titles which have been separated from the collection and are available for request through the library catalog.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Contents

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Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

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[Identification of item], Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Project Collection, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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