Charity Adams

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Charity Adams was born in 1918 in Columbia, South Carolina. Her father was a minister and her mother was a teacher. Adams had 3 brothers and sisters. She graduated from Wilberforce University in Ohio.

Charity Adams had 2 careers. The first one was in the army. Charity Adams was the first African American woman to be an officer in the Woman’s Army Corps and was the commanding officer of the first battalion of African American women to serve overseas during WWII. She was a battalion commander of the 6888th Central Postal Direction in England. They helped soldiers get mail during World War II.

After serving in the army, she got a master’s degree in psychology from Ohio State University and became a dean at Tennessee A&I College and Georgia State College.

Mrs. Adams was listed on the Smithsonian Institution’s list of important black women. died on January 13, 2002. She was 83 years old.