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Willie Mae Williams collection, 1943-1945, Date acquired: 03/16/2009, bulk 1945

 

Summary

Creator:
Williams, Willie Mae
Extent:
1.00 folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Willie Mae Williams collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_04_0144.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Willie Mae Williams, an African American woman, who served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. The collection includes an oral history interview, photographs, newspaper clippings, a cassette tape of the oral history, a woman's veterans hat, a Women's Army Corps souvenir tray, a Women's Army Corps tag, and a yearbook for the 1881st Service Command unit.

In her oral history interview, she discusses basic training for women and the WAC's unpreparedness for the women. She worked in the hospital and talks about life as a female on base and in traveling off base to visit civilians; talk about female pregnancy in the WAC.

Biographical / historical:

Willie Mae Williams was born on October 23, 1912, in Archer, Florida, and enlisted as a WAC on February 27, 1943. She was from the Tampa, Florida area. She worked stateside as a cook in hospitals, learning to make food for large groups and for special diets. She was discharged in 1945 at Ft. Bragg. Williams passed away on March 14, 2009, in Tampa, Florida.

Acquisition information:

Veleta Cheney

Donation

Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Arrangement:

Creator

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Willie Mae Williams collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_04_0144.

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA