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My rise to the stars : how a sharecropper's daughter became an Army general

Title
  1. My rise to the stars : how a sharecropper's daughter became an Army general / by Clara L. Adams-Ender with Blair S. Walker.
Published by
  1. Lake Ridge, VA : CAPE Associates, 2001.
Author
  1. Adams-Ender, Clara

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Additional authors
  1. Walker, Blair S.
Description
  1. 247 pages : illustrations, portraits; 22 cm
Summary
  1. A dramatic and gripping memoir of an African-American female's journey from farm worker, in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to the Pentagon as an Army general. About a girl turned woman who refused to be bound to the distinctions between men's work and women's work and traveled her own road to greatness as a military officer and nurse.
Subject
  1. Women generals
  2. United States > Army
  3. Military nursing
  4. African American soldiers
  5. African Americans
  6. African American generals
  7. Military nursing > United States
  8. United States > Army > Biography
  9. African American soldiers > Biography
  10. Adams-Ender, Clara L
  11. Armed Forces > Nurses
  12. Biography
  13. African American nurses > Biography
  14. Women generals > United States > Biography
  15. United States > Armed Forces > African Americans
  16. Black author
  17. Personal Narrative
  18. African Americans > Biography
  19. Armed Forces > Women
  20. African American generals > Biography
  21. Adams-Ender, Clara
  22. United States > Army > Nurses > Biography
  23. United States > Armed Forces > Women
  24. Armed Forces > African Americans
  25. United States > Army Nurse Corps > Biography
Genre/Form
  1. Biography.
  2. Personal Narrative.
Contents
  1. Ambushed! -- Life at Chez Leach -- Ramblin' man -- Watch your mouth, boy! -- Loving the skin I'm in -- Defying daddy -- A dream deferred -- Escape from Willow Springs -- Uncle Sam to the rescue -- Lieutenant, where is your hat? -- You're going to be a good nurse -- Just zip your lip! -- Disillusionment, matrimony -- Adding more color to the institute -- The affair -- Fighting to fete women -- Talk it to life -- Crashing the fraternity -- The afterlife.
Call number
  1. Sc D 19-67
Note
  1. Author's autograph copy. Signed.
Author
  1. Adams-Ender, Clara, author.
Title
  1. My rise to the stars : how a sharecropper's daughter became an Army general / by Clara L. Adams-Ender with Blair S. Walker.
Publisher
  1. Lake Ridge, VA : CAPE Associates, 2001.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Local subject
  1. Black author.
Added author
  1. Walker, Blair S., author.
LCCN
  1. 2001116704
ISBN
  1. 9780970940100
  2. 0970940106
Research call number
  1. Sc D 19-67
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