SCOPE NOTE
Although segregated in their military accomodations and limited advancement in ranks, a few thousand black women joined black male counterparts to serve their country and made history in their efforts. Many black WACs served in Europe, Cuba and Northern Africa.
PUBLISHED MATERIAL(S)
One Woman’s Army by Charity Adams Earley
To Serve My Country, To serve My Race by Brenda L. Moore
When the Nation was in Need: Blacks in the Women’s Army Corps During World War II by Martha S. Putney
REFERENCE MATERIAL(S)
African American Almanac, 9th ed
RELEVANT WEBSITES
http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/AMC_WW2.HTM
http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol27n17/n2.html
http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/heroes/bowie.html
http://www.usca.edu/aasc/earley.htm
http://www.womensmemorial.org/Education/BBH1998.html#4
POSSIBLE KEYWORD SEARCHES
african americans + women army corps
african americans + women auxiliary army corps 6888th postal battalion
black women + world war II, 1939-1945
KEY FIGURES
Charity Adams Earley
Sherian G. Cadoria
Dovey Mae Roundtree
ORGANIZATION(S)
US Army Women’s Museum
2100 “A” Avenue
Fort Lee, VA 23801
804-734-4327
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