To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II【電子書籍】[ Brenda L. Moore ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit of African American women to serve overseas＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞While African American men and white women were invited, if belatedly, to serve their country abroad, African American women were excluded for overseas duty throughout most of WWII. However, under political pressure from legislators like Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the NAACP, the Black press, and even President Roosevelt, the US War Department was forced to deploy African American women to the European theater in 1945.＜/p＞ ＜p＞African American women answered the call to serve from all over the country, from every socioeconomic stratum. Stationed in France and England at the end of World War II, the 6888th brought together women like Mary Daniel Williams, a cook in the unit who signed up for the Army to escape the slums of Cleveland and to improve her ninth-grade education, and Margaret Barnes Jones, the unit’s public relations officer, wh．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る