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Helen Wax, Fund for Needy Children, 2004

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Wax, Helen G.
Gritter, Elizabeth
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Oral history, Interviews, Memphis (Tenn.), Civil rights, Women, Church, Nonprofit organizations, Religion, Jews--Southern States, Race relations, Memphis City Schools
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20040617_Helen_Wax
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Everett R. Cook Oral History Collection
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In this interview, Helen G. Wax describes her and her husband Rabbi James Wax's activism work during the 1950s. She recounts how she helped organize and implement the Fund for Needy Children and the work that many members of the Memphis Jewish community did in the Civil Rights Movement.