Chariry Adams (1918-2000)
Adams, a member of the Women's Army Corps, served as the leader of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. This was an all-Black unit. These women delivered mail from the home front to troops in the European Theater, processing an average of 65,000 pieces of mail per shift. Before these women got involved with the mail, it was hopelessly backlogged.
By making sure all the mail got through, she and her command helped keep the morale of American troops up.
The 6888th was also the largest group of black women to serve overseas during the war. Adams saw her duty as showing white Americans what black women could do.
"What we had was a large group of adult Negro women who had been victimized, in one way or the other, by racial bias," Adams said later. "This was one opportunity for us to stand together for a common cause."
--GreGen
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