Nineteen women from Maryland served during World War II in the 6888th Battalion, which is featured in the film “The Six ...

The Six Triple Eight” — directed by Tyler Perry about the only all-Black Women’s Army Corps battalion to serve overseas in ...

The trailblazing soldiers depicted in the Netflix film are featured in a free virtual screening of an informative documentary on February 5, 2025. Here's how to reserve a seat.

Charity Adams Earley inspects members of the 6888th Postal Battalion in Birmingham, England, in 1945. (Provided/U.S. Army Women's Museum ... a dozen elementary school students whose test scores were ...

which she all thinks stems from her experiences as a part of the predominately-black 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the Women's Army Corps. During World War II, over 800 female ...

Under her leadership, a battalion of Black women nicknamed the Six Triple Eight (for the 6888th) sorted and sent ... school students whose test scores were high enough to skip middle school ...

A forgotten army of an all-black and all-female battalion of the US Women's Army Corp helped the war effort from Birmingham. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion were based at King Edward ...

Tyler Perry's 'The Six Triple Eight' is his most-watched movie on Netflix and also boosted viewership for his previous movies ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT The story of the 6888th ... The picture's headlined by Kerry Washington as Maj. Charity Adams, the battalion's leader and the first African American officer in the Women's Army ...

It stands to reason that viewership numbers like these were what Netflix ... the untold story of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only troop of Black women and women of color ...

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion consisted mostly of Black American women. They were assigned to locations in England and France during World War II. Their mission was to clear ...