Emma Brown
Member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
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Evelyn Johnson
Member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
Mary Crawford Ragland
Company clerk in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion during WWII
Fannie Griffin McClendon
Member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion in WWII
Willetta Esther Riddle Gayton
Willetta Esther Riddle Gayton was the first African American professional librarian in Seattle.
Violet Hill Gordon
Violet Gordon served as an officer in the WAC’s 32nd Company, as well as with the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion.
Essie Dell O’Bryant Woods
Staff Sergeant Essie Woods and her sisters, one older and one younger, all enlisted in the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps in 1943; member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
Dr Melnea Agnes Jones Cass
As a suffragist, clubwoman, and activist, Cass advocated for Boston’s most disadvantaged inhabitants.
María Feliciana Arballo
María Feliciana Arballo, a 25-year-old widow of Afro-Latina descent with two small children, was one of about forty women in the Anza expedition when it began its colonizing journey from Sonora, Mexico to Alta California (upper California) in 1775.
Lillian Walker
Lillian Walker was an African American civil rights activist in Washington state.