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Charity Adams Earley

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United States African American woman Army officer

United StatesLived 1918 to 2002 · aged 83
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Charity Adams Earley was a United States Army officer. She was the first African-American woman to become an officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and was the commanding officer of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only African-American and multi-ethnic US Women’s Army Corps (WAC) unit sent...

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Ohio Women's Hall of Fame

Connected to Charity 6

Virginia HamiltonAlso won Ohio Women's Hall of FameElsie JanisAlso won Ohio Women's Hall of FameAnnie GlennAlso won Ohio Women's Hall of FameCathy GuisewiteAlso won Ohio Women's Hall of FameCarol HeissAlso won Ohio Women's Hall of FameRuth Crawford SeegerAlso won Ohio Women's Hall of Fame

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Charity Adams Earley was a United States Army officer. She was the first African-American woman to become an officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and was the commanding officer of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only African-American and multi-ethnic US Women’s Army Corps (WAC) unit sent overseas during World War II. Adams was the highest-ranking African-American woman in the army by the completion of the war.

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United States
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deceased
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Lived 1918 to 2002 · aged 83
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