ARLINGTON, Virginia (CNN)-- The honors were late but still well-received Wednesday for members of the first all-African-American ... in World War II. During the war, nearly 1,000 women from ...

AFRICAN-AMERICAN women who served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II played a role in bringing about changes in segregationist U.S. military policy, a new book by a UB sociologist has found ...

The work of the 6888th Central Directory Postal Battalion in Europe during World War II, Col. Eries Mentzer says, help pave the path toward President Harry Truman’s Executive Order 9981, which ...

She is Regents Professor of History at the University of Montana, where she is affiliated with Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and African-American Studies and has received several awards ...

A quilt covers Anna Mae Robertson, fitting for a woman stitched into ... the first and only all-female African-American unit deployed overseas during World War II. The unit was tasked with ...

Maggie Walker was an African American businesswoman who defied the odds and made history during the atrocities of the Jim ...

African American troops line up, National Archives The military's view toward African Americans during World War II reflected that of the wider American culture. According to a report commissioned ...