Miller co-sponsors bill to commemorate 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion

Only all-women, Black battalion in WWII gets congressional honor, including many from SC

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, a mostly Black, all-female unit in WWII known as the "Six Triple Eight," gets the Congressional Gold Medal. Here are the members with ties to South Carolina.

Miller co-sponsors bill to commemorate 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion

COLUMBUS — They faced segregation, sexism and millions of pieces of mail that needed to get to soldiers during the deadliest conflict in human history. They are the mostly African American women who made up the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. The women in the battalion sorted millions of pieces of backlogged mail in three […] The post Miller co-sponsors bill to commemorate 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion appeared first on As…

The 6888th Central Postal Board Battalion, known as the "Six Triple Eight", was a battalion composed of African-American women from the U.S. Army Women's Corps. Thanks to them, the late mail of up to three years reached the troops that were fighting in Europe during World War II. Its history, however, portrays a complex time when women, and even more African-American women, were not well received in the U.S. Army. They suffered discrimination of…