Bibliography of History, Politics, and Culture Late-Nineteenth Century to the Present

Compiled by Thomas A. Klug April 8, 2019

Right-Wing Groups

Publications

Amann, Peter H. “Vigilante Fascism: The Black Legion as an American Hybrid.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 25, no. 3 (July 1983): 490–524. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500010550. Athans, Mary Christine. “A New Perspective on Father Charles E. Coughlin.” Church History 56, no. 2 (June 1987): 224–35. https://doi.org/10.2307/3165504. Babson, Steve. Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town. Detroit, MI: Press, 1986. Boyea, Earl. “The Reverend Charles Coughlin and the Church: The Gallagher Years, 1930- 1937.” The Catholic Historical Review 81, no. 2 (April 1995): 211–25. https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.1995.0044. Boyle, Kevin. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age. Henry Holt and Company, 2004. Brinkley, Alan. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Cannistraro, Philip V. “Fascism and Italian-Americans in Detroit, 1933–1935.” International Migration Review 9, no. 1 (March 1975): 29–40. https://doi.org/10.1177/019791837500900103. Cannistraro, Philip V., and Theodore P. Kovaleff. “Father Coughlin and Mussolini: Impossible Allies.” Journal of Church and State 13, no. 3 (Autumn 1971): 427–43. Carpenter, Ronald H. Father Charles E. Coughlin: Surrogate Spokesman for the Disaffected. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Casey, Michael, and Aimee Rowe. “‘Driving Out the Money Changers’: Radio Priest Charles E. Coughlin’s Rhetorical Vision.” Journal of Communication & Religion 19, no. 1 (March 1996): 37–47. Clinansmith, Michael S. “The Black Legion: Hooded Americanism in .” Michigan History 55 (Fall 1971): 243–262. Cremoni, Lucilla. “Antisemitism and in the United States in the 1930s: The Case of Father Coughlin.” Patterns of Prejudice 32, no. 1 (January 1998): 25–37.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.1998.9970245. Cypkin, Diane. “A Rhetorical Critical Analysis of Father Coughlin’s Radio Broadcast, November 20, 1938 or Call It What You Will . . . . It’s Still Anti‐Semitism!” Journal of Radio Studies 4, no. 1 (January 1997): 134–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529709391688. Davis, Forrest. “Labor Spies and the Black Legion.” New Republic, June 17, 1936, 169–71. Dean, Dayton. “Secrets of the Black Legion: The Black Legion Trigger Man in the Killing of Charles Poole Tells All.” Official Detective Stories 2 (October 1936): 3–7, 36–37. Dillard, Angela D. Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit. Ann Arbor, MI: Press, 2007. Doody, Colleen. Detroit’s Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013. Fehr, Russell MacKenzie. “Political Protestantism: The Detroit Citizens League and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan.” Journal of Urban History, 2018, 0096144218793646. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218793646. Gall, Ralph. “Ripping the Black Mask from Detroit’s Black Legion.” Daring Detective, August 1936. Garland, Libby. “Fighting to Be Insiders: American Jewish Leaders and the Michigan Alien Registration Law of 1931.” American Jewish History 96, no. 2 (June 2010): 109–40. Heale, M. J. “The Triumph of Liberalism? Red Scare Politics in Michigan, 1938-1954.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 139, no. 1 (March 1995): 44–66. Jackson, Kenneth T. The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 1992. Jeansonne, Glen. Gerald L. K. Smith: Minister of Hate. Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 1997. ———. “The Priest and the President: Father Coughlin, FDR, and 1930s America.” The Midwest Quarterly 53, no. 4 (Summer 2012): 359-373,312,316. Johnson, Christopher H. Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1988. Kernan, Rev. William C. “Coughlin, the Jews, and Communism.” The Nation, December 17, 1938, 655–58. ———. The Ghost of Royal Oak. New York, NY: Free Speech Forum, 1940. Klug, Thomas A. “Labor Market Politics in Detroit: The Curious Case of the ‘Spolansky Act’ of 1931.” Michigan Historical Review 14, no. 1 (Spring 1988): 1–32. https://doi.org/10.2307/20173118. ———. “The Michigan Alien Registration Act of 1931 and the Arrowsmith Case (Part 2).” The Court Legacy 21, no. 1 (February 2014): 1–12.

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———. “The Michigan Alien Registration Law of 1931 and the Arrowsmith Case (Part 1).” The Court Legacy 20, no. 2 (November 2013): 1–12. Lee, Elizabeth Briant, and Alfred McClung Lee. The Fine Art of Propaganda: A Study of Father Coughlin’s Speeches. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1939. Marcus, Sheldon. Father Coughlin: The Tumultuous Life of the Priest of the Little Flower. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1973. Martin, Louis E. “Profiles: Detroit.” The Journal of Educational Sociology 17, no. 5 (January 1944): 279–288. Mauer, David J. “The Black Legion: A Paramilitary Fascist Organization of the 1930s.” In For the General Welfare: Essays in Honor of Robert H. Bremner, edited by Frank Annunziata, 255–69. New York, NY: P. Lang, 1989. Mazzenga, Maria. “Condemning the Nazis’ Kristallnacht: Father Maurice Sheehy, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and the Dissent of Father Charles Coughlin.” U.S. Catholic Historian 26, no. 4 (2008): 71–87. https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2008.0029. Meehan, Charles, Jack Harvill, and Alfred E. Farrell. “Michigan’s Black Legion Murder by the Detectives Who Cracked the Case.” Edited by W. St. John. Official Detective Stories 2 (September 1936): 3–7, 34–36. Modras, Ronald. “Father Coughlin and Anti-Semitism: Fifty Years Later.” Journal of Church and State 31 (1989): 231-. Morris, George. The Black Legion Rides. New York, NY: Workers Library Publishers, 1936. Norwood, Stephen. Strikebreaking & Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth- Century America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Ogles, Robert M., and Herbert H. Howard. “Father Coughlin in the Periodical Press, 1931– 1942.” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 61, no. 2 (June 1984): 280–363. https://doi.org/10.1177/107769908406100206. Pehl, Matthew. “‘Apostles of Fascism,’ ‘Communist Clergy,’ and the UAW: Political Ideology and Working-Class Religion in Detroit, 1919–1945.” Journal of American History 99, no. 2 (September 2012): 440–65. https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jas261. Piel, Henry W., and Weaver Little. “Secrets of the Black Legion.” Inside Detective, September 1936, 22–27, 39–40. Riddle, David. “Race and Reaction in Warren, Michigan, 1971 to 1974: ‘Bradley v. Milliken’ and the Cross-District Busing Controversy.” Michigan Historical Review 26, no. 2 (Fall 2000): 1–49. https://doi.org/10.2307/20173858. Rowe, Aimee M., and Michael W. Casey. “Villains and Heroes of the Great Depression: The Evolution of Father Coughlin’s Fantasy Themes.” Journal of Radio Studies 4, no. 1 (January 1997): 112–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529709391687. Smith, Carl O., and Stephen B. Sarasohn. “Hate Propaganda in Detroit.” Public Opinion 3

Quarterly 10, no. 1 (Spring 1946): 24–52. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/10.1.24. Spivak, John L. Shrine of the Silver Dollar. New York, NY: Modern Age Books, 1940. ———. “Who Backs the Black Legion?” The New Masses, June 16, 1936. Stanton, Tom. Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression-Era Detroit. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Sugar, Maurice. “Michigan Passes the ‘Spolansky Act.’” The Nation 133, no. 8 (July 8, 1931): 31–33. Tull, Charlese J. Father Coughlin and the New Deal. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1965. Vinyard, JoEllen M. Right in Michigan’s Grassroots: From the KKK to the Michigan Militia. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2011. Wallace, Max. The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich. New York, NY: Macmillan, 2003. Ward, Paul W. “Who’s Behind the Black Legion?” The Nation, June 10, 1936, 731. Warren, Donald I. Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio. New York, NY: Free Press, 1996. Widick, B. J. Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence. Revised Edition. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1989.

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Right-Wing Groups Unpublished Works

Coe, David Terrance. “A Rhetorical Study of Selected Radio Speeches of Reverend Charles Edward Coughlin.” Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University, 1970. Davis, Richard Akin. “Radio Priest: The Public Career of Father Charles Edward Coughlin.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1974. Dvorak, Kenneth R. “Terror in Detroit: The Rise and Fall of Michigan’s Black Legion.” Ph.D. diss., Bowling Green State University, 2000. English, Mark S. “Under the Star of the Guard: The Story of the Black Legion.” MA Thesis, University of Michigan-Flint, 1993. Majka, Lorraine. “Organizational Linkages, Networks and Social Change in Detroit.” Ph.D. diss., Wayne State University, 1981. Parsons, Michael H. “Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Formation of the Union Party, 1936.” MA Thesis, Western Michigan University, 1965. Tull, Charles J. “Father Coughlin the New Deal, and the Election of 1936.” Ph.D. diss., University of Notre Dame, 1962.

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