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Title	[Portrait of Harriett Jamane Lewis Yeager, circa 1974]
Date	1974
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States--Armed Forces--African Americans
Era	Vietnam Era (1964-1974)
Service branch	Air Force--WAF
Item description	Portrait of Harriett Jamane Lewis Yeager, ca. 1974.
Veteran's name	Yeager, H. Jamene Lewis
Veteran's biography	H. Jamane Yeager of Kinston, North Carolina, served in the United States Air Force for a year and a half and then in the air force reserve through the late 1970s. Jamane Lewis Yeager was born in Kinston, North Carolina, and graduated from recently integrated Kinston High School. In 1974, Yeager enlisted in the United States Air Force to support her young son. She attended basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, then was assigned as a clerical assistant to the budget and management office at Caswell Air Force Base outside of Fort Worth, Texas. While there, Yeager served in the honor guard and met her husband John . After a year and a half, Yeager switched to the air force reserve to maintain custody of her son. Yeager moved to Kentucky with John and enrolled at Jefferson Community and Technical College in Louisville. The couple eventually settled in Reidsville, North Carolina.
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	WV0410 Harriett Jamane Lewis Yeager Oral History
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	WV0410.6.001
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	900814882

[Portrait of Harriett Jamane Lewis Yeager, circa 1974]

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