My rise to the stars : how a sharecropper's daughter became an Army general
- Title
- 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
- Lake Ridge, VA : CAPE Associates, 2001.
- Author
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- Description
- 247 pages : illustrations, portraits; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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
- Women generals
- United States > Army
- Military nursing
- African American soldiers
- African Americans
- African American generals
- Military nursing > United States
- United States > Army > Biography
- African American soldiers > Biography
- Adams-Ender, Clara L
- Armed Forces > Nurses
- Biography
- African American nurses > Biography
- Women generals > United States > Biography
- United States > Armed Forces > African Americans
- Black author
- Personal Narrative
- African Americans > Biography
- Armed Forces > Women
- African American generals > Biography
- Adams-Ender, Clara
- United States > Army > Nurses > Biography
- United States > Armed Forces > Women
- Armed Forces > African Americans
- United States > Army Nurse Corps > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Personal Narrative.
- Contents
- 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
- Sc D 19-67
- Note
- Author's autograph copy. Signed.
- Author
- Adams-Ender, Clara, author.
- Title
- My rise to the stars : how a sharecropper's daughter became an Army general / by Clara L. Adams-Ender with Blair S. Walker.
- Publisher
- Lake Ridge, VA : CAPE Associates, 2001.
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Local subject
- Black author.
- Added author
- Walker, Blair S., author.
- LCCN
- 2001116704
- ISBN
- 9780970940100
- 0970940106
- Research call number
- Sc D 19-67