Jordan Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and Her Military Stories

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-58838-489-8
Verlag: University of Georgia Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Digital (delivered electronically), Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

A person’s scrapbook can tell a lot about a person’s life or one period of someone’s life--joys and sorrow, challenges and successes, problems and solutions. Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and her Military Sisters focuses on a four-year period from 1942 to 1946 during World War II when up to 28 women from the Army Nurse Corps staffed the station hospital on the base where the future Tuskegee Airmen were undergoing basic and advanced pilot training.

These women were African-Americans, graduates of nursing schools throughout the country, registered nurses and lieutenants in the Army Nurse Corps.  They were military officers and the pilot cadets saluted them.  My mother was one of those angels of mercy. My mom, the former First LT Louise Lomax, did not talk much about her ten years of military nursing, but her Tuskegee Army Flying School scrapbook told a story, nevertheless.

I may have seen this scrapbook when I was much younger.  However, when my mother became ill and had to be cared for in a nursing home, I, her only child, had to close up her apartment.  Among her things, I found the Tuskegee Army Flying School scrapbook.  I saw that the Tuskegee Airmen were not the only ones making black history during World War II, but the nurses had to fight gender as well as racial discrimination.  Through my research, I found out more about them.  It was time for their story to be told.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jordan, Pia Marie Winters

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Pia Marie Winters Jordan is the project director of the Tuskegee Army Nurses Project. She continues to work on a multimedia documentary on the Army Nurse Corps members who served with the Tuskegee Airmen at Tuskegee Army Air Field during World War II. Her mother, Louise Virginia Lomax Winters, was a First Lieutenant and one of those nurses.

Jordan retired in 2018 as an associate professor in the School of Global Journalism and Communication at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Before joining the Morgan faculty, she served almost twenty years as an anchor, reporter, and producer for the Howard County Government Information Channel in Columbia, Maryland. She earned her M.A. in Journalism-Public Affairs, Radio-Television at American University in Washington, D.C. and her B.S. in Journalism-Broadcast News from the University of Maryland. For two years before transferring to the University of Maryland, she also attended the Mass Communications program at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia.

Jordan is the wife of the Rev. Dr. Basha Jordan, Jr., founder of Hope Alive Outreach which started in Baltimore, Maryland and now functions in St. Petersburg, Florida, where the couple now resides. He is also a former United Methodist Church pastor. In addition, he is the author of two books, The Pipe and the Pulpit and Beyond the Pipe and the Pulpit.