Women's US Army Service shirt worn by Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown
date: label: Date
content: 1980
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Force Manufacturing Company, American
label: Worn by
content: Brig. Gen. Hazel Johnson-Brown, American, 1927 - 2011
notes: label: Caption
content: 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.
label: Description
content: Green US Army Nurse's dress uniform blouse with shoulder boards and neck tie worn by Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown. The short-sleeved blouse (a) is made from pale green cotton/polyester fabric and is shaped with bust darts at the front and darts at the back near the side seams. It closes down the center front with six (6) pearlized plastic buttons, the topmost at the neck approximately five inches above the rest of the buttons. The cuffs of the sleeves are hemmed using clear fishing line. The blouse has a pointed collar and a shoulder strap is sewn on each shoulder that attaches near the collar with a single pearlized plastic button. A small square of Velcro is sewn under the collar by the points of the shoulder straps for affixing the neck tie (d) to the blouse. The blouse is not lined.
label: Description
content: The faux neck tie (d) is made of two lengths of black polyester that are crossed and looped at the center and stitched down to appear like a knot, which lays flat. At the other ends of the fabric lengths are small squares of black Velcro for attaching the tie under the collar of the blouse (a). The faux neck tie does not reach completely around the wearer's neck, but only around the front half.
place: label: Place used
content: United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Military
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1969-2001
label: Topic
content: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
label: Topic
content: Women
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Clothing - Military Uniforms
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Alice Calberb F. Royal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.146.1.3a-d
objectType: label: Type
content: shirts
label: Type
content: dress uniforms
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: cotton and polyester with plastic buttons and Velcro (TM)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Flat): 24 5/8 × 16 in. (62.5 × 40.6 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Tie): 6 3/4 × 4 in. (17.1 × 10.2 cm)