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Laid into the diary is ephemera announcing \"Why Some Are Voting For Heslip.\"   Heslip, who, after graduating from Howard in 1917, would serve on the national legal committee of the NAACP, become president of the National Black Bar Association and petition Congress to establish training camps for Black soldiers at the onset of the Second World War. 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Graduation cards given to Louise are tipped in throughout the book, with some pasted in at the back half. An uncaptioned postcard of three men, a 1942 Valentine's Day card signed \"Edmund\", and a 1936 calendar are tipped in at the front of the scrapbook. After graduating from the Hampton Institute, Louise Boyer returned to Delaware and taught in Wilmington Public Schools for several decades. 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They were married in Rouen, France in 1945 after the mail was cleared and she had sailed on the [RMS] Queens Elizabeth to Le Havre France where the 6888 cleared up more backlogs of mail.","The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was tasked with catching up a two-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail, which left people in the military with low morale. The battalion consisted of stenographers, postal clerks and others who tracked, redirected and investigated mail in cold, dark and rat-infested warehouses with a six-month deadline. They encountered both racism and sexism from fellow American service members, according to multiple historical reports. 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Madeleine Roach also graduated with honors as an African-American Studies major in the early 1980s at York College.","Source:\nRose, Naeisha. \"Remembering a 6888 Veteran\". Queens Chronicle. Queens New York. 13 February 2025. Accessed 2/25/25\nhttps://www.qchron.com/editions/queenswide/remembering-a-6888-veteran/article_0ef47078-4275-5df5-ae74-4fb5f9c1e9f3.html","This material contains references to offensive and harmful language and crimes involving racism. 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