In the midst of World War II, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-female African-American unit, undertook the monumental task of sorting and delivering a massive backlog of mail for the U.S. military. Despite facing ...See more ...
Not only will they be among the first class of female officers the army has even seen, they are also the first Black women allowed to serve.\nAs these courageous women help to form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, they are dealing with more than just army bureaucracy鈥攅very...
Adams Early, commander of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion in Europe, remembered that ‘‘the presence of successfully performing Negro women on the scene increased their resentment. [. . .] The efforts of the women to be supportive of the men was [sic] mistaken for competition ...
Army officials believed that lack of connection was hurting morale. The war was taking a toll on everyone, so a special unit was formed, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the Six Triple Eight. McNeil didn't tell the family about her historic service until she was in ...
(Putney1992:viii; Moore1996). More than 850 African American women were deployed to Europe as part of the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion to redistribute years of backlog mail. Some Japanese American women, many of whom were recruited from US internment camps, graduated the Military ...