Judy McKinnon Collection
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 February 2001; a portrait photograph of McKinnon in summer uniform, circa 1944.
Dates
- 1944-2001
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Collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
Judy Covington McKinnon (b. 1923) of Richmond County, North Carolina, worked in the motor pool and in the mess hall while in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and the Women's Army Corps during World War II.
Judy Covington McKinnon was born in Rockingham, North Carolina, on 3 May 1923, the daughter of a sharecropper. She graduated from high school in Ellerbe and worked as a housekeeper before joining the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in May 1942. McKinnon was inducted in Charlotte and completed basic training in a segregated African American unit at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
She then worked in the motor pool at Fort Rucker, Alabama, before attended cooks and bakers school at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. She remained at Fort Huachuca working in the mess hall, and later worked in the mess at Fort Lewis, Washington.
She was discharged from Fort Lewis as a private first class on 18 June 1945." McKinnon met her husband at Fort Lewis and was married in 1945. She moved with her husband to Tampa, Florida, where she raised a family and worked in a school cafeteria and a cashier. For more than twenty years she was also a self-employed home decorator.
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (2 folders )
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
The condition is good.
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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy.
- United States. Army. Women's Army Auxilliary Corps -- Military life
- United States. Army. Women's Army Auxilliary Corps -- Uniforms
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- History
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Interviews
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Military life
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Uniforms
- Women and the military
- Women veterans
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- Title
- Judy McKinnon Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2022 September
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository