Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Preferred Citation
Processing Information
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Scope and Content
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Michael Braver collection of Americanist material
Creator:
Braver, Michael
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1585
Physical Description:
12 linear feet
(24 boxes, 1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): 1960-1979
Abstract: Collection consists of over 300 speeches by Americanist right-wing extremist spokesmen on reel to reel and cassette tapes,
as well as Americanist journals, books, pamphlets, booklets, and fugitive materials. Includes speakers from the John Birch
Society, the National Socialist White Peoples' Party, Christian Crusade Convention, and the American Independent Party. Also
includes literature from the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, the Libertarian Party, the Minutemen, Sons of the American
Revolution, and Voice of Americanism.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained
by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue
the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: This collection contains both processed and unprocessed audiovisual materials. Audiovisual
materials are not currently available for access, unless otherwise noted in a Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
note at the series and file levels. All requests to access processed audiovisual materials must be made in advance using the
request button located on this page.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Michael Braver, 1989.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of Americanist material (Collection 1585). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user
interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides
a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive
processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
We are committed to providing ethical, inclusive, and anti-racist description of the materials we steward, and to remediating
existing description of our materials that contains language
that may be offensive or cause harm. We invite you to submit feedback about how our collections are described, and how they
could be described more accurately, by filling out the form
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Report Potentially Offensive Description in Library Special
Collections.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Michael Bruce Braver was born on Sept. 25, 1946 in New York City; AB, MA, UCLA, 1969; MSW, Univ. of Southern CA., 1978; Ph.D,
CA School of Professional Psychology, 1983; became asst. professor, Central Washington Univ., 1969-71, winning a meritorious
teaching award in 1969; clinical psychologist in private practice, Toluca Lake, CA, beginning in 1980.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of over 300 speeches by Americanist right-wing extremist spokesmen on reel to reel and cassette tapes,
as well as Americanist journals, books, pamphlets, booklets, and fugitive materials. Includes speakers from the John Birch
Society, the National Socialist White Peoples' Party, Christian Crusade Convention, and the American Independent Party. Also
includes literature from the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, the Libertarian Party, the Minutemen, Sons of the American
Revolution, and Voice of Americanism.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sound recordings.
Alternative publications.
Psychology teachers -- United States.
Clinical psychologists -- California, Southern.
Braver, Michael--Archives.