Still, the secretary of the Navy at the time, Josephus Daniels, was a documented white supremacist with ties to the Wilmington Massacre where Black residents were murdered by a mob of white people, which made the Golden Fourteen’s presence even more intriguing. They managed official military records that included the locations of various sailors and their work assignments. On the contrary, the Golden Fourteen worked as yeomen, part of the Navy’s front staff, performing administrative and clerical work. At the time, Black men could only work in the Navy as stewards, messmen, or in the coal room performing menial labor. Her research discovered that the women were employed in the muster roll unit of the U.S. While much is still not known about them, what is known is remarkable. While the Golden Fourteen took up only a sentence in that first writing, Bell said she couldn’t seem to get them out of her head.Ī post shared by Alice Paul Institute then, Bell has tracked down records that acknowledge the work of these women. While she was working on a book with a former marine, she began to write about the contributions of Black women in the armed forces. The women’s stories were most recently brought to light by Jerri Bell, a former naval officer and historian with the Veteran’s Writing Project. Such is the story of The Golden Fourteen, a group of 14 Black women who made history during World War I as the first Black women to serve in the U.S. That extends to Black women, whose contributions often went unnoticed and under-documented in the history books. Despite the moral stain on the armed forces, Black people have long served and fought in nearly every American war. The United States military has long struggled with racism, with a 2018 survey by the Military Times reporting that more than half of their respondents of color identified with experiencing racism from their peers, Atlas Obscura reports.
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