James Free papers, 1929-1996 (bulk 1951-1979).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 2,950 items; 9 containers plus 1 oversize; 4 linear feetSubject(s): - Free, Ann Cottrell
- Hubbard, L. Ron (La Fayette Ron), 1911-1986
- Birmingham news
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- American newspapers -- Alabama -- Birmingham
- Civil rights -- United States
- Civil rights movements -- United States
- Cold War
- Journalism -- Washington (D.C.)
- Motion pictures -- Caribbean Area
- Journalists
Open to research.
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.
Journalist. Full name: James Stillman Free. Born 1908; died 1996.
Collection material in English.
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