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Sarah B. Greenlee Collection

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Sarah Lee Brooks Greenlee (b. 1924), of Inverness, Florida, served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1944 to 1946. Sarah Lee Brooks Greenlee was born and raised in Inverness, Florida, primarily by her grandparents, a grave digger/morter mixer and a homemaker. Because there was no local high school for blacks, she moved to Lakeland, Florida, after eighth grade and graduated from high school there in 1943. She then studied elementary education at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida, for one year. Greenlee joined the Women's Army Corps in 1944 at Camp Blanding, Florida, then was sent to Des Moines, Iowa, for basic training. Greenlee attended cookery school in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and was then assigned to Tucson, Arizona, where she worked as a nurse's [...] Read more

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1.	Portrait of Sarah B. Greenlee Portrait of Sarah L. Brooks Greenlee in WAC uniform with Hobby hat, circa 1944. 1944 \| Image \| Sarah B. Greenlee Collection \| Detailed record - Similar records
2.	Oral history interview with Sarah Greenlee Primarily documents Sarah Brooks Greenlee's experiences as an African American in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II and her life after the war. Greenlee re[...] 2001-02-14 \| Audio \| Sarah B. Greenlee Collection \| Detailed record - Similar records

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