Title	[Portrait of Isabella P. Evans, circa 1945]
Date	1945
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States--Armed Forces--African Americans United States. Army--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Army--WAAC Army--WAC
Item description	Portrait of WAC Isabella P. Evans, circa 1945.
Veteran's name	Evans, Isabella Peterson
Veteran's biography	Isabella Peterson Evans (1919-2007) of Clemson, North Carolina, served in a postal unit of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and Women’s Army Corps (WAC) from 1942 to 1945 . Isabella Peterson Evans was born in Clemson, North Carolina, on 6 December 1919. Her father was a blacksmith and her mother was a homemaker. In 1931, after the death of her parents, Peterson moved to Washington, D.C., to live with relatives. She graduated from Cardozo High School in 1940 and worked in the afternoons as a maid . Peterson worked in the navy department's post office in Washington, D.C., as a civilian before joining the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in December 1942. She attended basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, in February 1943 before being stationed at Fort Clark, Texas, in May 1943. While serving as a postal clerk in a segregated African American unit there, Peterson re-enlisted in the WAC. She also married Oscar Evans, a member of the 2nd Cavalry, in November 1943. In the summer of 1944, Peterson was sent to Camp Gruber in Okalahoma, where she served as a company clerk . In March 1945 Peterson was sent overseas to Birmingham, England, with a postal detachment. She sorted mail in England for three months and then in Rouen, France, until November 1945. She left the army and returned to her job with the postal service in Washington, D.C., in late 1945 . Evans' husband remained in the service and the family lived in Indiana, Boston, and Germany. The Evans were divorced in the late 1960s, and Isabella Evans settled in North Carolina in the early 1980s. Evans passed on 29 December 2007.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0173 Isabella P. Evans Papers
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Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0173.6.001
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900811761

[Portrait of Isabella P. Evans, circa 1945]

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