Plus, the release date and trailer for The Six Triple Eight, a tale of trailblazing women of color during World War II.
For decades, stories of U.S. women during World War II and their contributions to war efforts have been folded under one image: that of a jumpsuit-wearing Rosie the Riveter who, invariably, is white. Meanwhile, the impact of women of colour — and particularly of Black women on the same factory and shipyard lines — is often minimised or ignored. That’s true of the stories of enlisted servicewomen, too.
— and Civil Rights legend Mary McLeod Bethune partnered with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers to draft the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps resolution. In 1942, it was passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate. With the WAAC — changed simply to the Women’s Army Corps in 1943, giving its members the same classification as soldiers — formed, white and Black women had both gained the right to serve the U.S.
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