TY  - GEN
AU  - Earley,Charity Adams
AU  - Earley,Charity Adams
TI  - Charity Adams Earley papers,
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - African American troops
KW  - Women
KW  - Women's Army Corps
KW  - Central Postal Battalion, 6888th
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Segregation
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - England
KW  - Birmingham
KW  - France
KW  - Paris
KW  - Rouen
KW  - Participation, African American
KW  - Participation, Female
KW  - Fort Des Moines (Iowa)
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - African American officers
KW  - Army officers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Civic activists
KW  - Educators
N1  - Open to research
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009089
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009089.3
ER  -