JAMES, WILLIS LAURENCE

JAMES, WILLIS LAURENCE. College educator/Folklorist (18 September 1900 in Montgomery, Alabama; 27 December 1966 in Atlanta, Georgia). When he was two years old, his family moved to Florida, where he lived in Pensacola and later in Jacksonville. He obtained his education at the Florida Baptist Academy in Jacksonville and at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia (B.A., 1923), where he sang in the Morehouse quartet and glee club and played violin in the college orchestra. He studied further at the...