| Record ID | marc_loc_updates/v40.i09.records.utf8:19962010:2651 |
| Source | Library of Congress |
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100 1 $aEarley, Charity Adams,$d1918-2002.
245 00 $aCharity Adams Earley papers,$f1928-2002$g(bulk 1942-2002).
300 $a1,000$fitems.
300 $a8$fcontainers plus$a1$foversize.
300 $a3.2$flinear feet.
506 0 $aOpen to research.
520 8 $aCorrespondence, 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.
541 $cGift,$aStanley A. Earley, Jr.,$d2003.
545 0 $aAfrican American army officer, educator, and civic activist.
546 $aCollection material in English.
555 8 $aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009089.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy$xAfrican American troops.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy$xWomen.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy.$bWomen's Army Corps.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy.$bWomen's Army Corps.$bCentral Postal Battalion, 6888th.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xSegregation.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zEngland$zBirmingham.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zFrance$zParis.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zFrance$zRouen.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xParticipation, African American.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xParticipation, Female.
651 0 $aFort Des Moines (Iowa)
656 7 $aArmy officers.$2itoamc
656 7 $aCivic activists.$2itoamc
656 7 $aEducators.$2itoamc
700 12 $aEarley, Charity Adams,$d1918-2002.$tOne woman's Army : a Black officer remembers the WAC.$f1989.
852 $aLibrary of Congress$bManuscript Division$eWashington, D.C. 20540 USA$ndcu$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
856 4 $3Finding aid$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009089
856 4 $3Finding aid (PDF)$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009089.3