To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race : : The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II / / Brenda L. Moore.
I would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where I was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part.--Gladys Carter, m...
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Moore, Brenda L., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race : The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II / Brenda L. Moore. New York, NY : New York University Press, [1996] ©1996 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Changing Military Structure -- 3. Fight Our Battles and Claim Our Victories -- 4. Just American Soldiers Going to Do a Job -- 5. Serving in the European Theater of Operations, January 1945-March 1946 -- 6. Life after Military Service -- 7. Cohesion, Conflict, and Phenomenology -- 8. Epilogue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star I would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where I was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part.--Gladys Carter, member of the 6888th To Serve My Country, to Serve my Race is the story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit composed of African-American women to serve overseas. While African-American men and white women were invited, if belatedly, to serve their country abroad, African-American women were excluded for overseas duty throughout most of WWII. Under political pressure from legislators like Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the NAACP, the black press, and even President Roosevelt, the U.S. War Department was forced to deploy African-American women to the European theater in 1945.African-American women, having succeeded, through their own activism and political ties, in their quest to shape their own lives, answered the call from all over the country, from every socioeconomic stratum. Stationed in France and England at the end of World War II, the 6888th brought together women like Mary Daniel Williams, a cook in the 6888th who signed up for the Army to escape the slums of Cleveland and to improve her ninth-grade education, and Margaret Barnes Jones, a public relations officer of the 6888th, who grew up in a comfortable household with a politically active mother who encouraged her to challenge the system. Despite the social, political, and economic restrictions imposed upon these African-American women in their own country, they were eager to serve, not only out of patriotism but out of a desire to uplift their race and dispell bigoted preconceptions about their abilities. Elaine Bennett, a First Sergeant in the 6888th, joined because "I wanted to prove to myself and maybe to the world that we would give what we had back to the United States as a confirmation that we were full- fledged citizens." Filled with compelling personal testimony based on extensive interviews, To Serve My Country is the first book to document the lives of these courageous pioneers. It reveals how their Army experience affected them for the rest of their lives and how they, in turn, transformed the U.S. military forever. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) World War, 1939-1945 African Americans. World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Female. HISTORY / Military / World War II. bisacsh 6888th. African-American. Army. Corps. Country. States. To. United. Womens. composed. first. historic. overseas. serve. story. unit. women. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110716924 print 9780814755228 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814763247.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814763247 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814763247/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Changing Military Structure -- 3. Fight Our Battles and Claim Our Victories -- 4. Just American Soldiers Going to Do a Job -- 5. Serving in the European Theater of Operations, January 1945-March 1946 -- 6. Life after Military Service -- 7. Cohesion, Conflict, and Phenomenology -- 8. Epilogue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Changing Military Structure -- 3. Fight Our Battles and Claim Our Victories -- 4. Just American Soldiers Going to Do a Job -- 5. Serving in the European Theater of Operations, January 1945-March 1946 -- 6. Life after Military Service -- 7. Cohesion, Conflict, and Phenomenology -- 8. Epilogue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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