Halsey McGovern papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Politics and government; Fighting Homefolks of Fighting Men (Organization); John Birch Society; Defenders of the American Constitution; Patriotic societies; Anti-communist movements; Inc Congress of Freedom; Korean War, 1950-1953; Correspondence; Race relations; Civil rights movements; Inc Friends of Senator McCarthy; United Nations
Description: Twenty-five scrapbooks containing correspondence, church bulletins, greeting cards, magazine articles, mailing lists, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, poetry, prayer cards, press releases, social invitations, telegrams, and photographs; together with other newsletters and a booklet.  The collection documents McGovern's political views and includes his writings in opposition to communism, the United Nations, Korean War, racial integration, and the civil rights movement.  Organizations represented include the Congress of Freedom, Inc., Defenders of the American Constitution, Fighting Homefolks of Fighting Men, Friends of Senator McCarthy, Inc., and the John Birch Society.  Correspondents include Ida M. Darden, Reed J. Irvine, Robert LeFevre, William Loeb, Russell Maguire, Clarence E. Manion, R. Roy Pursell, Archibald B. Roosevelt, Phyllis Schlafly, Dan Smoot, George and Annalee Stratemeyer, and Homer A. Tomlinson.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Carol A. G. Alonso, 1995.

Political commentator and freight rate specialist.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009128