Hicks, Mattie Donnell
Person
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Artifacts, undated
Series
Identifier: WV 0044- Series 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
African American nurse Mattie Donnell Hicks of Greensboro, N.C., served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1966. Artifacts, an oral history interview, and textiles document her service during World War II and the Korean War. Artifacts include service ribbons, cuff buttons, and shoulder insignia. The oral history interview documents Hicks's early life, her military service, and her post-war life in Greensboro, N.C. Specific subjects include basic training at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin;...
Dates:
undated
Audio recording (listening copy)
Item — Box WV ACD 01
Identifier: WV 0044- File Folder 1 - Item Item 28
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Documents Mattie Donnell Hicks's early life, service in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1966, and post-war life in Greensboro, N.C.
Hicks provides a brief description of her basic training at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, in an integrated unit as well as complications at the hospital at Camp San Luis Obispo due to being in a segregated black unit. Toward the end of the interview she comments on the sense of family in the military and her adjustment to civilian work after more than twenty years...
Dates:
1999 February 25
Audio recording location slip
File — Box 1: Series 3, Folder: 1
Identifier: WV 0044- File Folder 1 - File Folder 1
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Documents Mattie Donnell Hicks's early life, service in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1966, and post-war life in Greensboro, N.C.
Hicks provides a brief description of her basic training at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, in an integrated unit as well as complications at the hospital at Camp San Luis Obispo due to being in a segregated black unit. Toward the end of the interview she comments on the sense of family in the military and her adjustment to civilian work after more than twenty years...
Dates:
1999 February 25
Audio recording (original)
Item — Box WV ACO 01
Identifier: WV 0044- File Folder 1 - Item Item 28
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Documents Mattie Donnell Hicks's early life, service in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1966, and post-war life in Greensboro, N.C.
Hicks provides a brief description of her basic training at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, in an integrated unit as well as complications at the hospital at Camp San Luis Obispo due to being in a segregated black unit. Toward the end of the interview she comments on the sense of family in the military and her adjustment to civilian work after more than twenty years...
Dates:
1999 February 25
Drawer 2.1
File — Artifact box WV Gen 01: Series 4, Drawer: 2.1
Identifier: WV 0044- Series 4- File Drawer 2.1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
African American nurse Mattie Donnell Hicks of Greensboro, N.C., served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1966. Artifacts, an oral history interview, and textiles document her service during World War II and the Korean War. Artifacts include service ribbons, cuff buttons, and shoulder insignia. The oral history interview documents Hicks's early life, her military service, and her post-war life in Greensboro, N.C. Specific subjects include basic training at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin;...
Dates:
undated
Mattie Donnell Hicks Collection
Collection
Identifier: WV 0044
Abstract
African American nurse Mattie Donnell Hicks of Greensboro, N.C., served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1966.Artifacts, an oral history interview, and textiles document her service in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II and the Korean War. Artifacts include service ribbons, cuff buttons, and shoulder insignia. The oral history interview documents Hicks's early life, her military service, and her post-war life in Greensboro, N.C. Specific subjects include basic training...
Dates:
1942-1999
Oral history recording , 1999 February 25
Item
Identifier: WV 0044- Item Item 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
African American nurse Mattie Donnell Hicks of Greensboro, N.C., served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1966. Artifacts, an oral history interview, and textiles document her service during World War II and the Korean War. Artifacts include service ribbons, cuff buttons, and shoulder insignia. The oral history interview documents Hicks's early life, her military service, and her post-war life in Greensboro, N.C. Specific subjects include basic training at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin;...
Dates:
1999 February 25
Oral history transcript--includes audio cassette tape , 1999 February 25
File — Document folder 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: WV 0044- File Folder 1
Scope and Contents
Documents Mattie Donnell Hicks's early life, service in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1966, and post-war life in Greensboro, N.C.
Hicks provides a brief description of her basic training at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, in an integrated unit as well as complications at the hospital at Camp San Luis Obispo due to being in a segregated black unit. Toward the end of the interview she comments on the sense of family in the military and her adjustment to civilian work after more than twenty years...
Dates:
1999 February 25
Photographs, circa 1950-1965, undated
File — Document folder 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: WV 0044- File Folder 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
African American nurse Mattie Donnell Hicks of Greensboro, N.C., served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1966. Artifacts, an oral history interview, and textiles document her service during World War II and the Korean War. Artifacts include service ribbons, cuff buttons, and shoulder insignia. The oral history interview documents Hicks's early life, her military service, and her post-war life in Greensboro, N.C. Specific subjects include basic training at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin;...
Dates:
circa 1950-1965, undated
Printed Material, 1966, 1999
Series
Identifier: WV 0044- Series 3
Scope and Contents
Printed material includes a photocopy of a 1966 Greensboro, N.C., newspaper article about Hicks and several 1999 Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation (WIMSA) notecards.
Dates:
1966, 1999
Printed materials , 1966
File — Box 1: Series 3, Folder: 3
Identifier: WV 0044- Series 3- File Folder 3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Printed material includes a photocopy of a 1966 Greensboro, N.C., newspaper article about Hicks and several 1999 Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation (WIMSA) notecards.
Dates:
1966
Printed materials , 1999
File — Box 1: Series 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: WV 0044- Series 3- File Folder 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Printed material includes a photocopy of a 1966 Greensboro, N.C., newspaper article about Hicks and several 1999 Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation (WIMSA) notecards.
Dates:
1999
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