James Free papers, 1929-1996 (bulk 1951-1979).
- 2,950 items. 9 1 containers plus oversize. 4 linear feet.
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.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008052
mm 97083945
Free, Ann Cottrell. Hubbard, L. 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.