Murray L. Wax papers, 1944-1992 (bulk 1962-1969)
Wax, Murray Lionel, 1922-
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15 cubic ft. (39 boxes)
Organized into series by type of material: projects, correspondence, works, newspaper clippings, subject reference files, etc. There are individual series for each project
Project files, correspondence, publications of Murray L. Wax, and secondarily of Rosalie Hankey Wax, 1944-1992, but dating mainly from the 1960's -- Includes field notes, interviews, and manuscript drafts of project reports for U.S. Office of Education-funded Indian education field projects directed by Murray and Rosalie Wax and focusing on the Pine Ridge Reservation Oglala Sioux, 1962-1964, and rural and urban schools among the Oklahoma Cherokee, 1966-1968. There are also project files on a Head Start study they conducted in Oklahoma and South Dakota and material on a Univ. of Chicago Cherokee project directed by Sol Tax, a Rough Rock Demonstration School visit by Wax in 1966, and a national Indian Health Board project on which Wax consulted. There are copies of published and unpublished reports and articles by Murray and Rosalie Wax, as well as work by several of their students (Robert Breunig and Marilyn Henning), research assistants, and other anthropologists relating to the Sioux, Cherokee, and other Native American subjects; numerous newspaper clippings concerning topics of Wax's research and the projects themselves; and miscellaneous field notes. Also correspondence of friends, professional acquaintances, and former project staff members, including Robert V. Dumont, Stephen E. Feraca, Roselyn Holy Rock, and Robert K. Thomas. Also includes Rosalie Wax's Tule Lake (Calif.) Japanese internment camp fieldwork files, 1944-1945
American anthropologist and sociologist specializing in Native American education -- During the 1960's Wax (Ph. D Univ. of Chicago, 1959) and his wife and colleague Rosalie Hankey Wax directed a study of Oglala Sioux education at the Pine Ridge Reservation, S.D., an Indian Education Research Project that studied rural and urban education among the Oklahoma Cherokee, and other projects. Wax taught at Emory, The Univ. of Kansas, and Washington Univ. in St. Louis. Rosalie Hankey Wax (Ph. D. Univ. of Chicago, 1950) did her first field work in 1944 at a Japanese internment camp at Tule Lake, Calif
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
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