Julia M. Jackson Woods scrapbook, 1942-1947 (Women's History)

Julia M. Jackson Woods scrapbook, 1942-1947

This scrapbook was created by Julia M. Jackson Woods (1911-2000), an African American woman from Louisville, Kentucky, who enlisted in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in November 1942. The scrapbook contains greeting cards, newspaper clippings, and ephemera from Woods' service, as well as more than 20 insignia and patches collected from various units, including her own sergeant stripes. The scrapbook documents the social side of military base life - cards from USO groups and friends, marriages, dances, and other interracial interactions between otherwise segregated regiments stationed at the same bases. A few items at the end of the volume relate to Woods' postwar life in Louisville. Woods served in the all-Black 32nd Post Headquarters Company of the WAAC. She did much of her training at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, near the Mexican border; she also served stints in Des Moines, Iowa and Midland, Texas. A clipping on one of the initial pages of the scrapbook notes that Jackson was one of Louisville's first volunteers to join the WAAC. She was discharged on August 14, 1943. After the United States Congress authorized the creation of the Women's Army Corps (WAC), she enlisted in the WAC on May 1, 1944. She ultimately reached the rank of sergeant and served in the military police force. The Army discharged her on December 24, 1945. After her service, she married Thomas Harry Woods (1914-1961) and was hired as the head of the all-Black Western Kentucky Vocational Training School Department of Cosmetology in Paducah, Kentucky, by 1946.

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Julia M. Jackson get well wishes

top left A QUiZ KiDS Greeting for your Recovery I know that you are very smart, So see if you can tell Who sent this QUiZ KiDS Get Well card, And hopes you'll soon be well!

top right A Speedy Recovery

bottom leftHope You're Getting Better

bottom rightTo a CONVALESCENT Do Get well soon!

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Jullia M. Jackson get well wishes

cardA prayer for your Recovery

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[ Image of white, apple-cheeked girl with red curls in an old-fashioned nurse outfit, holding a white doll with black plaited hair, in a yellow dress with red polkadots, with its right arm and left leg bandaged] To a LITTLE GIRL Who is ILL!

[Stamp, left] CLASS OF SERVICE This is a full-rate Telegram or Cablegram unless its deferred character is indicated by a suitable symbol above or preceding the address.

1946 MAR 14 PM 12 46

WESTERN UNION ^{A. N. WILLIAMS PRESIDENT}

¹²⁰¹ [Stamp, right] SYMBOLS DL = Day Letter NL = Night Letter DC = Deferred Cable NLT = Cable Night Letter Ship Radiogram

^{The filing time shown in the date line on telegrams and day letters is STANDARD TIME at point of origin. Time os receipt is STANDARD TIME at point of destination.} LD27 IS 9 NO FONE 107P H8 LOUISVILLE KY 1239P MAR 14 1946 JULIA M JACKSON 629 ESAT BURNETT LVILLE WE WISH YOU A HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND MANY MORE BEA AND GUS [can't read] smiles, 1246P (ma5935g) WRONG NO 105P HB.

^{THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE}

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