Honors and Tributes
- Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal
- 1993 Outstanding Book on Human Rights Award from the Gustav Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in America, for When the Nation was in Need: Blacks in the Women's Army Corps During World War II.
- Congressional tribute from Rep. Alcee L. Hastings of Florida
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