A Soldier's Life (eBook)

A Black Woman's Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion

Edna W. Cummings (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
192 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5316-8 (ISBN)

Infos

One womans extraordinary personal journey in the US military and her triumphant effort to honor her predecessors with the Congressional Gold Medal Looking back on her remarkable career, Retired Army Colonel Edna W. Cummings can justly say that ';the odds ain't good, but good stuff happens.' Her story is as inspiring as it is improbable, but her memoir is about much more than herself. Chronicling Cummings's unlikely but successful path to leadership roles in the army and afterward, it also tells the story of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the Six Triple Eighta trailblazing African American World War II Women's Army Corps unit now the subject of a Netflix film and a Broadway-bound musicaland the grassroots campaign Cummings led to honor them. In 2022, due in large part to Cummings's efforts, the Six Triple Eight was awarded the nation's highest civilian honorthe Congressional Gold Medal. Among the fewer than two hundred recipients, including the crew of Apollo 11 and the Navajo Code Talkers, the Six Triple Eight is the only women's unit to receive this prestigious decoration. In A Soldier's Life Colonel Cummings narrates her path from childhood to advocate and how she overcame incredible odds not only for herself but on behalf of those who had come before her.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2025
• Reihe/Serie: The Black Soldier in War and Society
• Zusatzinfo: 23 b&w illus
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 6888 • 6888 battalion • Advocate • Army women • Charity Adams • Congress • congressional medal of honor • Dominican Republic • Dr. Mary McCleod Bethune • Hidden Figures • logistics • Mail • misogyny • North Korea • President Biden • Puerto Rico • Racism • Robert E. Lee • September 11 • sexual harrassment • Six Triple Eight • South Korea • Strategic Communication • Tyler Perry movie • United Services Organization • Walter Reed • women in the military • women’s army auxiliary corps • Women's Army Corps • Women's history
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5316-2 / 0813953162
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5316-8 / 9780813953168