Charity Adams Earley papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1000
Subjects: United States. Army. Women's Army Corps. Central Postal Battalion, 6888th; United States; World War, 1939-1945; Female Participation; African American troops; African American Participation; Segregation; United States. Army. Women's Army Corps; United States. Army; African Americans; Women
Description: Correspondence, speeches, notes, military records, press clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating to Earley's experience as the first African-American commissioned officer in the Women's Army Corps during World War II and to her community activities later in life.  Includes drafts of Earley's memoir One Woman's Army : a Black Officer Remembers the WAC, in which she recounts her experiences as a woman and as an African American in the segregated military at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and as commanding officer of the 6888th Central Post Battalion stationed in Birmingham, England, and in Rouen and Paris, France.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Stanley A. Earley, Jr., 2003.

African American army officer, educator, and civic activist.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009089