James Free papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2950
Subjects: Motion pictures; Civil rights movements; Cold War; American newspapers; Civil rights; Journalism; Birmingham news; African Americans
Description: Story files and scrapbooks of clippings (1937-1982) of Free's articles for various newspapers, particularly as Washington, D.C., correspondent for the Birmingham News covering the civil rights movement and the Cold War; articles for "National Whirligig," a newspaper column he coauthored with his wife, Ann Cottrell Free; notebooks (1965-1979) in which he recorded interviews and other information; and correspondence, notes, logbook, reports, and photographs documenting an expedition to the Caribbean in 1932 with L. Ron Hubbard to film exotic locales for motion pictures.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Ann Cottrell Free, 1997.

Journalist.  Full name: James Stillman Free.  Born 1908; died 1996.

Collection material in English.

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