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Inside N.J.’s Mosaic: Rev. Al Sharpton, Six Triple Eight, Harvard bound
Black female unit, recognize for its vital wartime contributions, sorted a 17 million mail backlog and three months and ...
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Black female WWII unit, 'Six Triple Eight,' receives congressional medal
right, presents the Congressional Gold Medal to Stanley Earley III, son of Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley, left, during a ceremony honoring the Six Triple Eight, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday ...
The Six Triple Eight WWII unit receives the Congressional Gold Medal
The only Black all-female WWII unit in Europe received the Congressional Gold Medal for ending a major mail crisis in England.
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Black female WWII unit, 'Six Triple Eight,' receives congressional medal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, known as the “Six Triple Eight,” was honored Tuesday with the Congressional Gold Medal, following a ...
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Gift from the grave: Commander’s son reflects on mother leading the only all-woman unit overseas during WWII
As the highest-ranking Black woman officer during WWII, Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley served her country proudly between 1942 ...
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Inside N.J.’s Mosaic: Rev. Al Sharpton, Six Triple Eight, Harvard bound
Reporter Vashti Harris penned a story on how the families of the Six Triple Eight, the only all-Black, all-women U.S. military unit in World War II, received the Congressional Gold Medal for their ...
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“A Privilege” As Family Of “Six Triple Eight” Veteran Attends Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony
Descendants of one of the women who was a member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion Women Army Corps (WAC), ...
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World War II veteran named Milwaukee Juneteenth parade grand marshal
A Milwaukee World War II veteran will serve as the grand marshal of the city's annual Juneteenth parade.