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Title	[Marjorie Suggs Edwards and Lt. Spencer, circa 1945]
Date	1945
Date approximate?	yes
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	Marjorie Randolph Suggs Edwards and "nice fellow" Lieutenant Spencer stand on the steps of a building at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, where she attended special services school, circa 1945. Edwards wears her WAC olive drab winter dress uniform.
Veteran's name	Edwards, Marjorie Randolph Suggs
Veteran's biography	Marjorie R. Suggs Edwards, of Passaic, New Jersey, worked in personnel, special services, and motor pool with the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and Women’s Army Corps (WAC) from February 1943 to December 1945. Following her military service, Edwards had a long career as an interior designer, primarily in Cincinnati, Ohio . Marjorie Randolph Suggs Edwards was born and raised in an immigrant community in Passaic, New Jersey, by her Cuban grandmother. She held several manufacturing and social work jobs before enlisting in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (later the WAC) in February 1943 . Edwards attended basic training with a segregated African American unit in Fort Des Moines, Iowa. During the course of the war she performed personnel work at Fort Custer, Michigan; attended Special Services School at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia; served as special services officer at Fort Sheridan in Illinois; and worked in a motor pool at Fort Sam Houston in Texas . Discharged as a sergeant in December 1945, Edwards attended the Traphagen School of Fashion in New York City on the GI Bill and studied interior design. She operated an interior design shop until moving to Cincinnati, Ohio, in the mid-1940s to marry. She continued her design work for forty years, and in retirement was a volunteer at the Durham VA hospital and a local elementary school. Marjorie Edwards passed away in 2006.
Place	Lexington (Va.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
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	WV0177 Marjorie Randolph Suggs Edwards Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0177.6.005
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	900811672

[Marjorie Suggs Edwards and Lt. Spencer, circa 1945]

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