The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Gen. Clara Adams-Ender

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Gen. Clara Adams-Ender

9/20/2005; 2/1/2006

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2005.218

Military officer Gen. Clara Adams-Ender (1939 - ) reached the rank of Army General with the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. In the process of climbing the ranks, Adams-Ender became the first African American Nurse Corps officer to graduate from the U.S. Army War College, and the first woman to earn a Master of Military Art and Science degree at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Adams-Ender was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 9/20/2005 and 2/1/2006, in Lake Ridge, Virginia. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 14; Total Run Time: 06h 33m 41s

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Adams-Ender, Clara L.

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U.S. Army General Clara Mae Leach Adams-Ender was born on July 11, 1939 in Willow Springs, North Carolina to Caretha Bell Sapp Leach and Otha Leach. Adams-Ender was the fourth child of ten and grew up in a family of sharecroppers. Adams-Ender excelled in school and went on to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she earned her B.S. degree in nursing in 1961.Upon her graduation, Adams-Ender joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps as a second lie...