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Women in Military - Lt. Anna Mac Clarke - 2 views

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  • Big Bird on 20 Sep 10
     
    Since I just came back from active duty, I found this biography of Lt. Anna Mac Clarke very interesting. She was an African American woman born in Lawrenceburg, KY and was the first female, African American female, to be specific, to command an all-white unit. I feel that this brief article not only demonstrates the magnitude of such an accomplishment, but that it also provides wonderful insight about a topic that deserves much more attention: women in the military. With both the historical background and significance of this article, I think others will find it just as useful.
  • charlie v on 22 Sep 10
     
    This article is very interesting. It is hard to believe that an African American women who led an all white group of troops late in her military career was subject to swimming in the pool at her base camp in Iowa only for one hour a week on fridays, after the pool was sanitized. Lt. Clarke had to be a strong willed women who was constantly challenged in her military life due to the fact of being black and a women. The majority of the army being white men, this race and gender issue must of been a challenge each and everyday.
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Kentucky.com two women receive WWII medals - 3 views

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  • Mary __ on 20 Sep 10
     
    Two women receive medals for their service in the military. They are from Wilmore these could be two women that could help with the oral history and give more insight into how women were treated in WWII as nurses.
  • Big Bird on 20 Sep 10
     
    I think that's a fantastic idea Mary. I just read the article and these women are very interesting.
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AMC - POSTSCRIPT - 2 views

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  • From its start as the WAAC in 1942 until the end of World War II in 1946, only two black women from Kentucky would join the Women's Army Corps and go on to become officers, Anna Clarke and Mary A. Bordeaux (from Louisville), who was a member of the first Officer Candidate Class at Fort Des Moines and eventually was assigned to WAC recruiting duty in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Anna Mac Clarke was a pioneer, part of a unique group of women who came together for one purpose, to help their country win a world war. She and her sister WAACs would also fight another war at home; that of racism, and they, as one unified force, began to break down the barriers of her race and gender which would eventually lead to the civil rights movement of the late 1940s, up through the 1960s. Anna Mac would never know the full impact her efforts to right injustice would have on things that we take for granted today, not only in the military, but in the civilian world as well.
  • The Women's Armed Services Integration Act gave women permanent military status in the regular army or reserves.
  • Jamsasha Pierce on 29 Sep 10
     
    Very interesting to see Black women in the arm forces and to see that they were able to become officers in a time like this
  • charlie v on 30 Sep 10
     
    I found this site interesting, espically that after her death, President Truman made an executive order for the equality of blacks in our military.
  • anonymous on 30 Sep 10
     
    There were actually quite a few African American WACs from Kentucky. See the NKAA entry "African American WACs who were Born in Kentucky" at http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/NKAA/record.php?note_id=2139 and the "WACs" subject heading at http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/NKAA/subject.php?sub_id=142
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African-American WACs: they changed segregationist military policy - 0 views

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  • Jamsasha Pierce on 09 Nov 10
     
    Wuetcher, Sue. "African-American WACs: they changed segregationist military policy." Available from http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/archives/vol27/vol27n17/n2.html. Internet; accessed 8 November 2010.
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Notable Kentucky African Americans - - 4 views

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  • She was one of the first African American woman from Kentucky to enlist during World War II, the first to become an officer, and the first African American WAC over an all-white regiment. Clarke led the protest that desegregated the Douglas Army Airfield theater.
  • Jamsasha Pierce on 29 Sep 10
     
    Here's a compilation of many different resources on Kentucky woment during World War II. Needs exploring by the class very interesting.
  • Syle Khaw on 29 Sep 10
     
    Thank you for this website! I find it very interesting to read about because I am joining the military. It is very informative and like you said interesting to read about!
  • charlie v on 30 Sep 10
     
    This site provides a ton of information regarding the tough road most African Americans had to take in order to be treated with dignity and respect in the military, espically women.
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Women in Military - Lt. Anna Mac Clarke - 0 views

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  • Jamsasha Pierce on 30 Sep 10
     
    a more in depth look at Lt. Anna Mac Clarke...She is very interesting due to becoming the first black commanderof an all white regiment.
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Kentucky Chautauqua, Mary Owens, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Boone, Kentucky History - Ky H... - 0 views

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  • Haley Bowlng McCoy
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    Anna Mac Clarke

    Military Pioneer
    1919—1944

    Anna Mac Clarke didn't put up with second-class treatment from anybody, including the U.S. Army. A native of Lawrenceburg, Clarke graduated from Kentucky State College in 1941. Rejecting domestic work—the only job a black college graduate could get in Lawrenceburg in those days—she left Kentucky to work at a Girl Scout Camp in New York state.

    After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Clarke volunteered for the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (renamed Women's Army Corps in 1943). During officer's training in Iowa, she led the successful opposition to a proposal to segregate black soldiers into their own regiment. At Douglas Army Airfield in Arizona, Lieutenant Clarke made history when she became the first black WAC officer to command a white unit. And she made national news after her protest against segregated seating in the base theater convinced the commanding officer to ban segregation on the base. Just a few weeks later, Clarke died of complications from a ruptured appendix. She was 24.
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Kentucky African American Encyclopedia Proposal - 0 views

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  •   Throughout the state’s history Kentuckians of African descent have made notable contributions to all aspects of life. They have served in the military, constructed buildings, organized hospitals, established businesses, erected churches, formed benevolent societies, participated in athletic events, shaped the cultural landscape, entertained audiences, educated masses of school children, held political offices, and fought for respect and equality. Kentucky African American history is as diverse as the state.
  • In 1970, the Kentucky Commission for Human Rights published Kentucky’s Black Heritage
  •   In 1982, Alice Dunnigan published lengthy popular history The Fascinating Story of Black Kentuckians
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  • In 1992, the Kentucky Historical Society published the well-received two volumes History of Blacks in Kentucky authored by Marion Lucas and George Wright. 
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