Charity Adams Earley

There was also a room filled with gifts, food, and rodents.

Charity Adams, one of only two Black women promoted to major during World War II, was commander of the unit.

By dividing women into three eight-hour shifts and sorting more than 65,000 pieces of mail during each shift, the unit was able to clear these rooms in less than three months.

Over the course of the war effort, Black American women suffered mistreatment from all kinds of people.

They arrived in early 1945.

Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams was the commander of the 6888. the highest ranking black woman in the military at the time, and she recounted that, despite my rank, salutes from other units were slow in coming and frequently returned with great reluctance.

She remembered a woman when a general barked at her, I'm going to send a white first lieutenant down here to show you how to run this unit.

Charity's gutsy reply, over my dead body, sir.