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Women's US Army Service shirt worn by Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Women's US Army Service shirt worn by Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown

Force Manufacturing Company, American · 1980

cotton and polyester with plastic buttons and Velcro (TM)
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

In 1979, Brig. Gen. Hazel Johnson-Brown became the first African American woman general in the history of the U.S. military and the first African American woman to be appointed chief of the Army Nurse Corps. The one-star shoulder marks on this Army service shirt indicate her rank of brigadier general.

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