Subject files contain correspondence, clippings and other material relating to Jewish life, particularly in Alabama. Funeral sermon files contain biographical information on members of the congregation who died during Grafman’s tenure. This collection contains files kept by Grafman during his tenure as rabbi at Temple Emanu-El, including copies of The Serviceman, a newsletter published by Grafman for members of the Temple Emanu-El congregation serving in World War II. Grafman retired from Temple Emanu-El in 1975and died in 1995, in Birmingham. famously replied to in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Though a racial moderate, Grafman was grouped with racial reactionaries and received death threats and hate mail for the rest of his life. Grafman was one of the eight white clergymen that Martin Luther King, Jr. Grafman was a founder of the organization Spastic Aid of Alabama and helped establish the Institute for Christian Clergy, an organization established to promote understanding and cooperation between Jewish and Christian ministers. He was active in the civic and community life of Birmingham. Grafman came to Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham in 1941. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati, earned a Doctor of Divinity Degree from Hebrew Union College, and was ordained in 1933 as rabbi of Temple Adath Israel in Lexington, Kentucky. Grafman was born in 1907, in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Pittsburgh. The correspondence includes letters from Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry S. The papers include family photographs, college memorabilia, articles by and about Childers and articles of interest to him, personal and business correspondence, financial records, copies of most of the books authored by Childers, galley and page proofs for The Nation on the Flying Trapeeze, and ephemera from Childers’ travels abroad. James Saxon Childers died in Atlanta in 1965. Childers authored more than twenty books including A Novel About a White Man and a Black Man in the Deep South (Farrar and Rinehart, 1936), the biography Erskine Ramsay, His Life and Achievements (Cartwright and Ewing, 1942), the travel book Sailing South American Skies (Farrar and Rinehart, 1936), and The Nation on the Flying Trapeze: The United States as the People of the East See Us (David McKay Company, 1960). Department of State in the Far and Middle East (1958-1959) and president of Tupper and Love book publishers after 1959. He was an editor at the Atlanta Journal (1951-1957) a lecturer for the U.S. Upon his return from the war he and Maurine lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (1947-1951) and Atlanta, Georgia. In 1942 Childers married Maurine White and soon left Birmingham to serve as an Air Force intelligence officer in World War II. From 1925 to 1942 he was a professor of literature and creative writing at Birmingham-Southern College as well as a columnist and book reviewer for the Birmingham News. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1920 and attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Writer and publisher James Saxon Childers was born in Norwood, Alabama in 1899.
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