Black History Month Stories.
Today we stick with our "women running mail" theme from yesterday's story and celebrate the first Black woman to make officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps who went on to command an all-black postal battalion overseas.
This is the story of Charity Adams Earley.
Today we stick with our "women running mail" theme from yesterday's story and celebrate the first Black woman to make officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps who went on to command an all-black postal battalion overseas.
This is the story of Charity Adams Earley.
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After graduating, Adams taught math and science at a junior high school for 4 years, until service called her.
Adams completed officer training at Fort Des Moines, and received her commission while working as a staff training officer, station control officer, and company commander.
She was then appointed commander of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-Black unit tasked with delivering mail.
Then the big news: Adams was deployed to Europe.
Their task was astronomical: organize and direct mail to soldiers that had gone undelivered.
We aren't talking about a few boxes here either. The group found air hangers full of lost letters.
After finishing, the 6888th was sent to France, where they did it all again with more undelivered piles.