About Anna Mac Clarke

Anna Mac Clark is considered to be a pioneer of the black WAC's womnen. She joined the Army in 1942 and immediatialy started training with the Womens Army Auxillary Corps at Ft Des Moines.  After she graduated from her training school she was assigned to be the Third Company Fouth Platoon Leader which didnt last very long. She then worked at the Classification and Administration Department in Washington D.C. There she enrolled in the Adjutant General’s School at Campe Meade where she was promoted to Second Officer. In 1944 she led a group of WAC women at Douglas Army Air Field in eastern Arizona to the segregated theatre on the base which has had been advised not to go by the black male soldiers. She refused to sit in the Colored section and demaned the desegreation of the theatre. After hearing out outraged she was her surpervisor Commanding Officer, Colonel Harvey E. Dyer issued the order to his officers “to educate properly all enlisted and civilian personnel in your respective departments to accept any colored WACs assigned as you would any white enlisted man or enlisted woman in the Army of the United States. Throughout her military career she continuded to fight for the rights of African American women and men unitl her death in 1944 at the rightful age of 24 from an appendicitis.