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Title
[Katie
S
.
King
in
Cadet
Nurse
Corps
uniform
,
1944]
Date
1944
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States--Armed Forces--African Americans
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Cadet Nurse Corps
Item description
Katie
S
.
King
poses
in a
Cadet
Nurse
Corps
white
work
uniform
,
nurses
cap
, and
blue
wool
cape
. The
photo
was
taken
after
King
received
her
nurses
'
cap
after
six
months
in the
service
in
1944
.
Veteran's name
King, Katie Sawyer
Veteran's biography
Katie
S
.
King
(b
.
1923)
, of
Fayetteville
,
North
Carolina
,
served
in the
Cadet
Nurse
Corps
in the
1940s
and,
after
more
than
twenty
years
in
nursing
,
became
a
preacher
in the
African
Methodist
Episcopal
Zion
Church
in the
1980s
.
Katie
Sawyer
King
was
born
on
9
October
1923
and
raised
in
Fayetteville
,
North
Carolina
. She was
one
of
four
children
.
King
graduated
from
E.E
.
Smith
High
School
in
1943
and then
worked
for a
short
time
in the
laundry
at
Fort
Bragg.
"
King
entered
the
Cadet
Nurse
Corps
during
World
War
II
and
started
training
at
Hampton
Training
School
for
Nurses
in
September
1944
. She
completed
the
program
,
which
included
a
six-month
program
at
St
.
Phillips’s
Nursing
School
in
Richmond
,
Virginia
, in
September
1947
.
King
returned
to
Fayetteville
after
the
war
,
working
at
Highsmith
Hospital
and then
Pittman
Hospital
,
where
she was the
head
nurse
of the
African
American
ward
.
King
married
George
King
on
6
September
1948
, and they had
three
children
,
Cynthia
,
George
III
, and
Michael
.
While
George
King
was in the
army
,
Katie
King
worked
in a
hospital
in
Germany
from
1956
to
1957
and at
McCain
Tuberculosis
Sanitorium
in the
early
1960s
. She
earned
a
bachelor
of
science
degree
in
nursing
education
from the
Tuskegee
Institute
in
1965
.
In the
early
1980s
,
Katie
King
was
called
into the
ministry
at
Hood's
AME
Zion
Church
in
Fayetteville
. She
served
as a
preacher
and
evangelist
for
about
twenty
years
,
retiring
in
2003
.
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
WV0334 Katie S. King Papers
Collection summary
The
collection
contains
a
2005
oral
history
transcript
;
photographs
;
military
materials
(facsimiles)
,
1944-1948
;
educational
materials
(facsimiles)
1947-1948
,
1997
; and
religious
materials
(facsimiles)
1968-2005
.
Rights statement
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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
WV0334.6.002
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
900814286
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