(CIVIL RIGHTS WOMEN) HUNTON ADDIE WAITES Autograph Letter S

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(CIVIL RIGHTS--WOMEN.) HUNTON, ADDIE WAITES. Autograph Letter Signed to Oscar [? De Priest.] One page, 4to, on NAACP letterhead. Mobile, March 12, 1923

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Addie Waites Hunton (1866-1943) educator, race and gender activist, writer, suffragist, and political organizer, was born in Norfolk, Virginia. During World War I, Hunton and two others were the only African American women assigned by the U.S. Army to work with 200,000 segregated black troops stationed in France. When she returned to the U.S. in 1919, she and her coworker, Kathryn Johnson, wrote about their experiences with the troops in the book 'Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces.' (1920). She writes and asks that her trunk be forwarded down to Alabama, saying 'I must get on some thinner clothing.' She refers to her daughter Eunice, who was the first black women to receive a law degree from Fordham University (1933) She became the first black woman assistant district attorney in New York.