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Jan 13, 2002 · Cemetery Name: Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum. Charity Adams was born on December 5, 1918, in Kittrell, North Carolina. She grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, the oldest of four children. Her parents believed strongly in a good education. Adams graduated valedictorian of her high school at the age of 16 in 1934 with perfect school attendance.
Feb 21, 2023 · Lt. Col. Charity Adams was the first Black woman to graduate her officer candidate school at Fort Des Moines, Iowa in 1943. She eventually led the 6888th CPD during missions in England and France ...
Feb 13, 2023 · Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley served as the highest-ranking Black woman officer during World War II. She has since paved the way for other Black women in the military. Born in Kitrell, North Carolina, on Dec. 5, 1918, Earley was raised by her father, a minister, and her mother, a former teacher.
Charity Adams Earley papers. Correspondence, speeches, notes, military records, press clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating to Earley's experience as the first African-American commissioned officer in the Women's Army Corps during World War II and to her community activities later in life. Includes drafts of Earley's memoir One ...
Feb 13, 2023 · Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley served as the highest-ranking Black woman officer during World War II. She has since paved the way for other Black women in the military. Born in Kitrell, North ...
Feb 1, 1989 · Charity Adams Earley was the first woman sworn in for officer training in the WAAC, later the Women’s Army Corps, in 1942. Okay, it was mostly because her last name was Adams, and her group was there a week before the bulk of the officer candidates arrived.
Jan 7, 2020 · Charity Adams Earley (1918–2002) was the first African-American woman to be an officer in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (later WACS) and was the commanding officer of the first battalion of African-American women to serve overseas during World War II. Adams was the highest ranking African-American woman in the army by the completion of ...
