Today we want to honor Dovey Johnson Roundtree, a trailblazing lawyer, minister, advocate and inaugural member of the WAAC. She broke barriers, reaching the rank of Captain and recruited so many black women she helped set the groundwork for desegregation in the...
Catharine Deitch was born in Pennsylvania in 1919 and vividly remembers the day in 1929 when the banks closed and the Depression started. Her family had cultivated 28 acres of corn, wheat, raspberries, strawberries, asparagus, etc. and they had apple, cherry and black...
World War II was both a frustrating and fulfilling experience for Dorothy Walters. She wanted to make a significant contribution to the war effort, so she went to work in a defense plant. But that wasn’t enough, and she joined the new Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps,...
