IV 
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. CAR-
TER 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 Wis-
consin, Mr. NEGUSE, Ms. PLASKETT, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Mrs. SYKES, Mr. 
THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. WENSTRUP, and Ms. WIL-
LIAMS 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 com-
memorative stamp in honor of Charity Adams Earley. 
Whereas Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams Earley became 
the first Black officer in the United States Army’s Wom-
en’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 fam-
ily of educators, her father was a minister and her moth-
er was a former school teacher; 
Whereas, after graduating high school 2 years early as val-
edictorian of her class, Adams chose to attend Wilber-
force 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 Associa-
tion, 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 
Central Postal Directory Battalion, stationed in Bir-
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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 Eu-
ropean 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. Char-
ity 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 Insti-
tution, 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 
6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, including 
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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 ‘‘Lieuten-
ant 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 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) the United States Postal Service should 
issue a postage stamp honoring Charity Adams 
Earley; and 
(2) the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee 
should recommend to the Postmaster General that 
such a stamp be issued. 
Æ 
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