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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	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	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

[Katie S. King in Cadet Nurse Corps uniform, 1944]

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