Description
Correspondence, memoranda, writings, printed matter, photographs, and one sound recording relating to the Eritrean Liberation
Front and the movement for Eritrean independence. Also available on microfilm (1 reel).
Background
Jack Kramer is an American journalist and author. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in English in 1965 and
completed graduate work in journalism at Columbia University in 1970. Kramer worked as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal, contributing editor for Time magazine, and Middle East Bureau chief for Bloomberg Businessweek. He covered a variety of subjects as a journalist in the 1960s, including Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam,
Laos, Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tunisia, Algeria, Sudan, the Western Sahara, Greece, and Turkey. Kramer's publications
include: Travels with the Celestial Dog, a memoir of the 1960s; Rwanda Means the Universe,with Louise Mushikiwabo, the current foreign minister of Rwanda; and business-related books.
Availability
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.