WACs Opened My Eyes

This is the story of Christine Gibson, a sharecropper’s daughter who was filled with doing something other than sharecropping. Christine lived in Mississippi and often felt trapped. In 1939, there wasn’t much for a young black girl like Christine to do but the fields and marriage. Christine left Mississippi in search of a new life and ended up in Chicago. Because of her poor education, she ended up in the WACs.

-- Mable J. Harris