More than 100 Black female veterans and active duty members attended the National...
Army veteran Elizabeth Eckford tells her story so others will know they are not alone in any confrontation they face. Her tale isn’t of war but of being on the front line of the Civil Rights era.— the first African American students to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock.
Alone, she stepped off the bus, and an angry mob of more than 250 people awaited her arrival. Arkansas National Guard soldiers blocked her attempts to go in the school.An older woman spat on her face when she looked to her for help. The swarming crowd shouted racial epithets, and a photographer captured a spiteful-faced girl yelling at Eckford. The image became an iconic photo of her ordeal.
The association was formed from the Black Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, Women’s Army Corps and the Women in Service Association. Fifty-six years ago, 21 Black women who served during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War founded the association in Hampton, Virginia. That group included members of the 6888th Central Postal Battalion, an all-female African American unit deployed to England and France during World War II. In 1978, the group hosted its first biennial convention in Dallas.
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