Cheryl James Defense Committee records [manuscript], 1971-1973.

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Cheryl James Defense Committee records [manuscript], 1971-1973.

Collection includes correspondence, financial records, news clippings and ephemera regarding the case of Cheryl Dawn James and the work of the Cheryl James Defense Committee Fund. Most of the letters are written by Arthur Champlain Spencer III.

.17 cubic feet (3 folders)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7975136

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Spencer, Arthur Champlin, 1938-

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Arthur C. Spencer served as a librarian at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland. From the guide to the Oral history interviews with Arthur Champlin Spencer /, 1992 Oct 15, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) ...

Cheryl James Defense Committee.

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Cheryl Dawn James was an 18 year-old African American woman from Portland, Oregon. From the guide to the Cheryl James Defense Committee records, 1971-1973, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) Cheryl Dawn James was an 18 year-old African American woman from Portland, Oregon. In 1971 she was convicted of assaulting an FBI agent who came to the James' residence to arrest her brother, Charles T. James Jr. who was absent without leave from the Na...

James, Cheryl L. (Cheryl Louise), 1954-

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United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

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The FBI established this classification when it assumed responsibility for ascertaining the protection capabilities and weaknesses of defense plants. Each plant survey was a separate case file, with the survey, supplemental surveys, and all communications dealing with a plant insofar as plant protection was concerned, filed together. On June 1, 1941, and January 5, 1942, the Navy and Army, respectively, assumed responsibility for surveying defense plants in which they had interests. Thereafter, ...