Charity Adams Earley papers, (Record no. 44681)
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| control field | DLC |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | mm2003084973 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Description conventions | dacs |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | B |
| Source | lcmd |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Earley, Charity Adams, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1918-2002. |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Charity Adams Earley papers, |
| Inclusive dates | 1928-2002 |
| Bulk dates | (bulk 1942-2002). |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1,000 |
| Type of unit | items. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 8 |
| Type of unit | containers plus |
| Extent | 1 |
| Type of unit | oversize. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 3.2 |
| Type of unit | linear feet. |
| 506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Open to research. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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. |
| 545 0# - BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL DATA | |
| Biographical or historical data | African American army officer, educator, and civic activist. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Collection material in English. |
| 555 8# - CUMULATIVE INDEX/FINDING AIDS NOTE | |
| Cumulative index/finding aids note | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009089">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009089</a> |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United States. |
| Subordinate unit | Army |
| General subdivision | African American troops. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United States. |
| Subordinate unit | Army |
| General subdivision | Women. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United States. |
| Subordinate unit | Army. |
| -- | Women's Army Corps. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United States. |
| Subordinate unit | Army. |
| -- | Women's Army Corps. |
| -- | Central Postal Battalion, 6888th. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | African Americans |
| General subdivision | Segregation. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | World War, 1939-1945 |
| Geographic subdivision | England |
| -- | Birmingham. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | World War, 1939-1945 |
| Geographic subdivision | France |
| -- | Paris. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | World War, 1939-1945 |
| Geographic subdivision | France |
| -- | Rouen. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | World War, 1939-1945 |
| General subdivision | Participation, African American. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | World War, 1939-1945 |
| General subdivision | Participation, Female. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Fort Des Moines (Iowa) |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | Armed Forces |
| -- | African American officers. |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Army officers. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Civic activists. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Educators. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 700 12 - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Earley, Charity Adams, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1918-2002. |
| Title of a work | One woman's Army : a Black officer remembers the WAC. |
| Date of a work | 1989. |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009089">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009089</a> |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid (PDF) |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009089.3">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009089.3</a> |
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