J. B. MATHEWS PAPERS. 307,000 items
Papers of J. B. Matthews, white Methodist missionary, college professor, and prominent
conservative spokesman. The bulk of the collection falls between the 1930s and the 1960s, and
includes correspondence, memoranda, speeches, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, and other
printed materials. The principal focus of the collection relates to Mathew's work and
research in the area of anticommunism after he had completed his tenure as Director of
Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities. Organizations and personalities
touched on in his work include the following: the Black Panther Party, the National Negro
Labor Council, the Ku Klux Klan, the Afro-American Research Institute, the Harlem Community
Council for Housing, the NAACP, Ralph Abernathy, Jessie Jackson, Coretta Scott King and James
Baldwin.
