Gainesville Negro Girl Lieutenant
Item
- Title
- Gainesville Negro Girl Lieutenant
- Description
- This brief mention of a young black woman's commission as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps was a rare moment of acknowledgment for black service members in news publications covering the local region surrounding Camp Howze
- Date
- 1943-08-27
- Source
- "Gainesville Negro Girl Lieutenant." Gainesville Daily Register, August 27, 1943. Cooke County Library; Gainesville, TX.
- Subject
- Racism
- white newspapers
- World War II
- WWII
- World War 2
- WW2
- Second Lt. Madine Davis
- Second Lieutenant Madine Davis
- Army Nurse Corps
- Black nurse
- Negro nurse
- colored nurse
- African American nurse
- greatest generation
- Gainesville, TX
- Cooke County, TX
- Camp Howze
- Media
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