Weldon James papers, 1864-1985.

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Weldon James papers, 1864-1985.

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Articles; biographical information; and correspondence, 1928-1981, including copies of wires sent while reporting in China in 1937 and New York in 1940-1941; identification papers; photographs, mostly dating to World War II, including the Free French and Nagasaki after being bombed; publications, mostly concerning segregation. Also including writings, including biographical pieces, articles written in China, Japan, Africa, and Europe, and personal pieces on men serving on the USS Texas during World War II; scrapbooks of James' articles, his time in China, the sinking of the Panay, and WWII; and materials relating to James' education, finances, and military service. Oversize items include "A Comprehensive Map of Nanking-Shanghai-Hangchow and Ningpo."

2 oversize folders [onsite]

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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W.B. James (1912-1985) was a reporter, editor, U.S. Marine Corps Colonel, and native of Sumter County, S.C.; graduate, 1933, of Furman University, and Nieman Fellow, 1939-1940, at Harvard; high school teacher in Greenville, S.C., 1933-1934; reporter for "Greenville Piedmont" newspaper, 1934-1937; in 1937, joined United Press staff in Shanghai, China; appointed bureau manager in Nanking; aboard the USS Panay when bombed by Japanese in 1937; transferred to Spain and Washington, D.C.; ...