![]() Volunteering for service isn’t the hard part for either woman, though. Eliza races straight over to the office to sign up. She tells Eliza that “ They are only allowing forty Negro women” to be part of the first class of officers and she wants Eliza to be part of that group. Then she receives a phone call from living legend Mary McLeod Bethune urging her to head straight over to the WAAC. ![]() She wants to be a war correspondent and cover the real news of the day. Instead, she finds herself responding to a letter she had just received asking her to join the WAAC (Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps).Įliza Jones works for her daddy’s newspaper, the Harlem Voice, covering social events, but she dreams of writing about so much more. ![]() Not surprisingly, her heart isn’t in it, and she is kindly advised to return at a later time. Grace Steele learns her brother died in the war the day before she auditions at The Juilliard School. ![]() Telling the story of our heroines from when they first receive the letters inviting them to join the unit until war’s end, this tale reveals all the joys and sorrows of what it feels like to fight for a country that treats you like a second-class citizen. Sisters in Arms follows the lives and loves of two fictional characters in the Six Triple Eight, the real all-Black battalion of the Women’s Army Corps during WWII. ![]()
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