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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1399 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Citizens’ 

Stamp Advisory Committee, as an entity of the United States Postal 

Service, should issue a commemorative stamp in honor of Charity Adams 

Earley. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

AUGUST 2, 2024 

Mrs. BEATTY (for herself, Mr. TURNER, Ms. BROWN, Mr. CAREY, Mr. CARTER of Louisiana, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Ms. CROCKETT, Ms. LEGER

FERNANDEZ, Mrs. FOUSHEE, Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. FROST, 

Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. HORSFORD, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. KAPTUR, 

Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mrs. MCBATH, Mr. MFUME, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. NEGUSE, Ms. PLASKETT, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Mrs. SYKES, Mr. 

THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. WENSTRUP, and Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 

to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 

the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, as an entity 

of the United States Postal Service, should issue a commemorative stamp in honor of Charity Adams Earley. 

Whereas Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams Earley became 

the first Black officer in the United States Army’s Women’s Army Corps (WAC), persevering through the Army’s 

segregated environment and ultimately leading the 3d 


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Company, 3d Training Regiment, made up of 2 White 

platoons and 1 Black platoon; 

Whereas Charity Adams Earley was born on December 5, 

1918, in Kittrell, North Carolina, and grew up in a family of educators, her father was a minister and her mother was a former school teacher; 

Whereas, after graduating high school 2 years early as valedictorian of her class, Adams chose to attend Wilberforce University, a historically Black school in Ohio, 

where she majored in mathematics, physics, and Latin; 

Whereas, during her college tenure, she was a member of the 

National Association for the Advancement of Colored 

People (NAACP), the Women’s Self-Government Association, and the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority; 

Whereas Adams obtained her bachelor’s degree in 1938, and 

taught math and science to junior high school students 

for the next 4 years while taking summer classes at the 

Ohio State University in pursuit of a master’s degree in 

psychology; 

Whereas, in 1942, Adams applied for entry into the WAC 

and reported for training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, 

where she experienced the Army’s policies of segregation, 

White and Black candidates were separated and sent to 

different living units; 

Whereas, in 1943, Adams was promoted to Major, making 

her the highest ranking female officer at Fort Des 

Moines and one of the highest ranking WAC officers in 

the Nation; 

Whereas, in 1944, Adams was given command of the 6888th 

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mingham, England, where she led the first Black WAC 

unit overseas; 

Whereas Adams’ unit was tasked with organizing and sorting 

mail for delivery to the United States soldiers in the European Theater and given just 6 months to clear large 

backlogs of mail, and the unit completed the job in half 

of the time; 

Whereas, for her service, Adams was promoted to Lieutenant 

Colonel, the highest possible rank for a soldier in the 

WAC; 

Whereas, after the end of World War II, Adams went on to 

finish her studies at Ohio State University, completing 

her master’s degree in vocational psychology; 

Whereas Adams married Stanley A. Earley, Jr., in 1949, and 

the couple raised their 2 children in Dayton, Ohio; 

Whereas, in 1982, Adams Earley became the founder of the 

Black Leadership Development Program which focused 

on teaching young African Americans to be leaders in 

their communities; 

Whereas, on January 13, 2002, at the age of 83, Mrs. Charity Adams Earley passed away in Dayton, Ohio; 

Whereas Adams Earley has been recognized by the National 

Postal Museum, the National Women’s History Museum, 

the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame, the Smithsonian Institution, the South Carolina Black Hall of Fame, and 

many others for her dedicated service to the country and 

work on promoting opportunities for Black Americans; 

Whereas, on March 14, 2022, the Congressional Gold Medal 

was awarded to the members of the WAC assigned to the 

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posthumously to their commander, Charity Adams 

Earley; 

Whereas, on April 27, 2023, Fort Lee, Virginia, was officially 

renamed Fort Gregg-Adams in honor of Lt. Gen. Arthur 

Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams; 

Whereas, on June 12, 2024, the Dayton, Ohio, VA Medical 

Center officially renamed its women’s clinic the ‘‘Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams Earley Women’s Clinic’’; and 

Whereas issuing a postage stamp to honor Charity Adams 

Earley is fitting and proper: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that— 

3 (1) the United States Postal Service should 

4 issue a postage stamp honoring Charity Adams 

5 Earley; and 

6 (2) the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee 

7 should recommend to the Postmaster General that 

8 such a stamp be issued. 

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