Antisemitic brochures, newsletters, and ephemera
Extent and Medium
folders
6
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection. The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Crown Family.
Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Crown Family.
Purchase, 2014.
Scope and Content
Collection of brochures, leaflets, newsletters, and periodicals, published by a variety of antisemitic organizations in the United States between the 1930s and 1970s. Items include broadsides and leaflets issued by Robert Edward Edmondson between 1934 and 1939; issues of the periodical founded by Gerald L.K. Smith, "The Cross and the Flag," 1952 and 1956; a newsletter of the Keep America Committee, Los Angeles, 1956; various leaves from newsletters titled "Women's Voice," 1946-1954; a leaflet titled "Mysterious Jew Power" from Gordon Winrod, Gainesville, Missouri, 1967; a leaflet titled "Benjamin Franklin and the Jews," undated; and a photocopied leaflet protesting the number of Jewish officials in the administration of President Gerald R. Ford, circa 1975.
People
- Smith, Gerald L. K. (Gerald Lyman Kenneth), 1898-1976.
- Edmondson, Robert Edward, 1872-.
Subjects
- Antisemitism--United States.
Genre
- Document