Important Dates and Numbers
The number of African American women in the 6888th battalion.
What is 855?
Motto of the 6888th
What is “No mail, low morale?"
Charity Adams' Date of Birth
What is December 5th, 1918?
Denied entry into places like hotels and
What is the American Red Cross club?
One of the first women inducted into the military in role other than nurse.
Who is Violet Hill Gordon?
The year President Roosevelt signed the bill to create the WAAC.
What is 1942?
Role of Charity Adams Earley in World War II
Who is the commanding officer of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion?
Charity Adams graduated Valedictorian of this Columbia, SC high school
What is Booker T. Washington High School?
Rats sought out packages of
What are cakes and cookies?
Daughter of a WWI Navy veteran, volunteered for the WAAC in 1942.
Who is Evelyn C. Martin Johnson?
The amount of mail sorted by the 6888th.
What is over 17 million pieces?
Year the War Department created the 6888th Battalion
What is 1944?
What did Charity Adams do in the summers when she was not teaching?
What is "She took graduate courses at Ohio State University?"
Work shifts were broken into _____________ and included __________
What is three 8 hour shifts and included weekends?
Served over 20 years in the military after being falsely told she failed the WAAC entrance exam.
Who is Fannie Griffin McClendon?
The year that the battalion returned back to the US.
What is 1946?
First place the 6888th started.
Where is Birmingham, England?
Charity Adams led the 6888th Battalion to complete what task?
What is "Clear backlogged mail?"
Reason night shift worked without lights.
What is trying to avoid nighttime raid attacks?
Initially turned away due to being underweight, she and her two sisters both enlisted in the WAAC.
Who is Essie D. O'Bryant Woods?
Amount of money the 6888th donated to the United Negro College Funds.
What is 5 million dollars?
To get years of backlogged mail distributed to soldiers overseas
Why the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was started?
What was she honored for before her death?
What is "Her work with the 6888th Battalion and achievements in World War II?"
A white general threatened to do what when Major Adams only had 1/3 of her unit show up to be inspected.
What is "He threatened to have her court martialed?"
Joined WAAC immediately after high school and used GI Bill to complete a degree in history after the war.
Who is Emma Jean Jacobs Brown?