The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Helen Jones Woods

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Helen Jones Woods

10/6/2007

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2007.281

Trombonist Helen Jones Woods ( - ) was the original trombonist of The International Sweethearts of Rhythm. She was part of the first group of African American women to tour with the USO during World War II. Woods was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 10/6/2007, in Omaha, Nebraska. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 4; Total Run Time: 01h 41m 47s

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Woods, Helen Jones, 1923-

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Licensed practical nurse and trombonist Helen Elizabeth Jones Woods was born in 1923 in Meridian, Mississippi. Woods began her life in a Mississippi orphanage for white children. When it became obvious that she was not white, Woods was adopted by Professor Laurence Clifton Jones, the founder and director of Piney Woods Country Life School, and his wife. After the sudden death of Jones' wife, Woods, at the age of four, became part of the general population of the school where she enjoyed music an...