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usnatarchives · 2 years
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WWII 6888th Central Postal Battalion vet Romay Davis, 102, Jay Reeves/AP.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at Dedication Ceremony Honoring Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, 7/13/2022 (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post).
Black Women ROCK (US history)! By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs
Two BIG story updates: Mary McLeod Bethune Returns to the Hill (7/13/2022) (Figuratively) topples Confederate Statue! 1st Black American in Statuary Hall! See related NARA Tumblr post. Dr. Bethune joined Old Boys Club on Capitol Hill (90 of the 100 statues there are of men) as an impressive 3 ton, 11 foot statue in the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall.
80 years late, WWII vet Romay Davis is recognized (7/25/2022) Davis was part of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only all-Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe in WWII, led by Major Charity Adams, the highest-ranking Black woman in the Army during WWII. See: Black Female WWII Unit Gets (Congressional) GOLD!
More amazing facts about Dr. Bethune:
1st Black woman to lead a federal agency.
1st Black women with a university founded in her name.
Founder of the National Council of Negro Women
More amazing facts about Ms. Davis:
She earned a martial arts black belt while in her late 70s!
She went back to work at grocery store in Montgomery, AL, and retired only last year, at age 101!
The 6888th by the #s:
855 - # of Black women in the 6888th
3 - # of months it took them to clear a 6-month backlog of mail.
3 separate 8-hour shifts, 7 days a week - work hours.
65,000 - # of pieces of mail processed per shift
17 million - # of pieces of mail processed by the conflict’s end.
77 years - # of years wait for these women to be honored by Congress
Connection between the two? Mary McLeod Bethune worked with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to establish the Women’s Army Corps, and advocated for the inclusion of Black women who wanted to contribute to the war effort.
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“Somewhere in England, Maj. Charity E. Adams,…and Capt. Abbie N. Campbell, …inspect the first contingent of Negro members of the Women’s Army Corps assigned to overseas service.” 2/15/1945. NARA ID 16214.
Much more online:
We honor WW2’s #InvisibleWarriors! Black Women in WWII
BLACK (military) NURSES ROCK!
Pictorial History of Black Women in the US Navy during World War II and Beyond, by Dr. Tina Ligon, Rediscovering Black History.
Before Kamala: Black Women in Presidential Administrations, Rediscovering Black History
Official Personnel Folder for Mary McLeod Bethune, NARA ID 158329664.
Mary Bethune: Adviser to Presidents, Hoover Heads blog
Providing a New Deal for Young Black Women: Mary McLeod Bethune and the Negro Affairs Division of the National Youth Association, Rediscovering Black History.
Featured NARA public program: Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
The Closed Door of Justice: African American Nurses and the Fight for Naval Service, by Alicia Henneberry, The Text Message.
Their War Too: US Women in the Military During WWII, The Text Message
African Americans and the War Industry by Alexis Hill, The Unwritten Record blog
I too, am Rosie by Dr. Tina Ligon, Rediscovering Black History
Women’s History Month and African American History National Archives News special topics pages.
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malecaptions · 8 months
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womeninfatigues · 1 year
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usmspcol · 1 year
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Today is International Women's Day! The pictured items are a part our Edna Bishop collection (M403) available for viewing at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Mrs. Edna Bishop served as a Women's Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) in WWII. The WASPs were officially organized in 1942 as test pilots for the aircrafts that would be used in the war. Their other jobs included flying the aircraft from their factories, towing targets used in anti-aircraft training, and helped train male combat pilots. These pilots would receive equal if not better flight training than their male counterparts, but were paid the same $1,200 a year.
The WASPs were deactivated in 1944, but it was not until 1977 when the U.S. Congress recognized the WASPs military contributions to WWII and gave them veteran status and benefits.
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doktorphil · 1 year
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indynerdgirl · 2 years
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Things I learned while researching for my Top Gun: Maverick fanfictions:
Cmdr. Elizabeth Malecha, a Naval Flight Officer, was the first female graduate of Topgun and that wasn’t until 2001.
Cmdr. Becky Calder was the first female pilot to graduate from Topgun and that wasn’t until 2004.
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ghostfriendly5 · 2 years
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A Redditor I won't link to has argued that LOGH should not have more military female characters, since freely including women in the combatant fleets would drop childbirth rates through battlefield casualties. While insulting real female IDF soldiers, mocking the pursuit of equality as 'for warm fuzzies', and linking to a video describing men as the 'expendable gender', a toxic MRA dogwhistle.
This intersection between sexism in anime and sexism in the real world is what disturbs me enough to spend my time condemning them. The Alliance-Imperial war, btw, is wasteful, causeless and anachronistic enough to be absurdly unsustainable for many more reasons than the specious one given. Why are cultures that can travel the galaxy still depending on women to give birth to children? You know why.
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isaacsapphire · 2 years
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Forcing your way into gendered spaces
It strikes me as hilarious that TERFs rant on and on about trans women “forcing their way into women’s spaces” like prisons and women’s colleges, when a HUGE part of 2nd wave era feminism was women physically, socially, and legally forcing their way into “men’s spaces” like the military and men’s colleges.
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It wouldn't be a casual Sunday morning of reading about women in the military if i weren't steaming mad about Cornelia Fort dying in a plane crash because a dude was showing off and clipped her plane. Or the lack of standard protocol for accepting women into WAAC led to some men taking advantage and requiring women to strip naked and run through a hall of men for their physical.
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valiantarcher · 2 years
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When 481 Battery was deployed in Hyde Park (many will remember seeing it there, bulled to the nines with gleaming steel and brass work and immaculate paint) and Mary Churchill was the ATS junior commander, a message from the Prime Minister's office to the battery commander asked if he may look in and visit it en route from the Commons to Downing Street, which gave much pleasure. It was after dark, and the unbriefed male sentry on guard, his wits momentarily paralysed by the august apparition revealed by a dim light inside the large car demanded its identity guard, which was produced after some terrifying rumbles. Then: 'You did quite right, my boy'.
Shelford Bidwell, The Women’s Royal Army Corps. Mary Churchill was the daughter of the then Prime Minister Winston Churchill and was serving in the Anti-Aircraft Command.
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theexodvs · 1 year
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Women soldiers are a sign of societal collapse. Change my mind.
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sacrainbowsitrep · 1 year
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LGBTQ+ History Month: Anne McClain, U.S. Army & NASA Astronaut
LGBTQ+ History Month: Anne McClain, U.S. Army & NASA Astronaut
There are no average days or normal days in outer space. (more…)
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womeninfatigues · 1 year
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indynerdgirl · 2 years
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Things I learned while researching for my Top Gun: Maverick fanfictions:
Cmdr. Elizabeth Malecha, a Naval Flight Officer, was the first female graduate of Topgun and that wasn’t until 2001.
Cmdr. Becky Calder was the first female pilot to graduate from Topgun and that wasn’t until 2004.
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