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Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II Played March 11 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on various VOD platforms.] Tamara Woods narrates Gregory S. Cooke's powerful, educational, inspirational, thought-provoking, insightful, 65-minute documentary that pays tribute to the more than 600,000 African-American women during WWII who made vast and varied contributions to the war effort in government offices, U.S. military, and war production as well as the Women's Army Corps (WAC), Army Nurse Corps, SPARS (Coast Guard), and WAVES (Navy) while struggling with racism, sexual abuse, and discrimination and consists of archival photographs and film clips and candid commentary by American studies professor and author Darlene Clark Hine, National Council of Negro Women member Dr. Dorothy I. Height, professor and author Maureen Honey, Allowance and Allotment War Department clerk Birdia Whitfeld Bush, singers Lena Horne and Marian Anderson, historian and assistant librarian Dr. Janet Sims-Wood, crankshaft welder Idilia Johnson, gunpowder processor Willie Mae Steagall-Govan, sharecropper Marian Elean Todd-Reid, munitions assembler Alice Beatrice Clark Amaro, riveters Susan Emmaline Taylor-King and Gwendolyn Althea Ashford Faison, shipbuilder and sheet metal worker Ruth S. Wilson, and clerk typist Bernice Arlene Paige Bowman.   Redhead: Year: 2022 Rating:  NR View Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II on the Internet Movie Database