Charity Edna Adams grew up experiencing the hardships of segregation, but never let it detract her from doing her best, even in the completely uncharted territory of the U.S. Women’s Army Auxillary Corps. 

Further reading: “One Woman’s Army” by Charity Adams Earley 

https://www.army.mil/women/history/wac.html

“The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army” Christina Brown Fisher for The New York Times 

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