Marcelite Harris – Major General – First Black Female General Officer in the United States Air Force
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John C Abercrombie
Major General Marcelite J Harris is well known as the first Black female general officer in the United States Air Force is the way I would love to begin this post. Unfortunately, we do not often talk about people of major accomplishment in America, particularly if they are not White and male. This is a shame as it could inspire so many to dream of the success, they are capable of. A country grows great when it offers opportunity to all rather than withholding it from selected citizens.
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Born January 16, 1943, in Houston, Texas. Her father was Cecil O’Neal Jordan and mother was Marcelite Terrill Jordan. She graduated from Spelman College with a BA in speech and drama and completed Officer Training School at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas in 1965.
Spelman College is a well known and respected private, HBCU concentrating on women’s liberal arts, located in Atlanta, Georgia.
Among her accomplishments
- First female aircraft maintenance officer
- One of two female air officers commanding at the Air Force Academy
- First Force’s first female Director of Maintenance
- White House social aide during the Carter administration
Service medals and decorations
- Bronze star
- Presidential Unit Citation
- Vietnam Service Medal
In 1997 she retired as a major general, the highest-ranking female officer in the Air Force and the Nations highest ranking Black woman in the Department of Defense
After retirement from the Air Force, she served as the Air Force, she served NASA as the Florida Site Director and Logistics Process Owner for United Space Alliance, the company managing the nation’s shuttle program. Besides her Spelman B.A., she holds a B.S. in Business Management from the University of Maryland University College. In 1999, Harris was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Spelman College.
Other accomplishments
- Treasurer of the Atlanta Branch of the NAACP
- Director on the Board of Peachtree Hope Charter School
- Appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as member of the Board of Visitors for the United States Air Force Academy
- The board inquiries into
- Morale
- Discipline
- Curriculum
- Instruction
- Physical equipment
- Financial affairs
- Academic methods
- The board inquiries into
We see once again the amazing accomplishments that known would inspire many to emulate and even surpass these accomplishments. We stand on the shoulders of great people and stand taller for it. We suppress the good news of success to our peril. Let’s stop suppression of achievement.
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Honoring Marcelite Harris, U.S. Military’s First Black Female Major General | NBC Nightly News
After a career of historic firsts in the Air Force, Maj. Gen. Marcelite Harris was laid to rest with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery this week.
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Book
A Black Women’s History of the United States: ReVisioning American History, Book 5
A 2021 NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction
Honorable Mention for the 2021 Organization of American Historians Darlene Clark Hine Award
A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are – and have always been – instrumental in shaping our country.
In centering Black women’s stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women’s unique ability to make their own communities while combatting centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism. Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross offer an examination and celebration of Black womanhood, beginning with the first African women who arrived in what became the United States to African American women of today.
A Black Women’s History of the United States reaches far beyond a single narrative to showcase Black women’s lives in all their fraught complexities. Berry and Gross prioritize many voices: enslaved women, freedwomen, religious leaders, artists, queer women, activists, and women who lived outside the law. The result is a starting point for exploring Black women’s history and a testament to the beauty, richness, rhythm, tragedy, heartbreak, rage, and enduring love that abounds in the spirit of Black women in communities throughout the nation.
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Little Leaders 📚 Marcelite Harris 💚 Positive Actions with 🎨 Mrs Hott
NEW! (Ep30 of 40)! Marcelite Harris celebrating “”WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH” AND “Black History Month” today on PositiveValuesNetwork.com, featuring 40 daily stories from Vashti Harrison’s LITTLE LEADERS: Bold Women in Black History! Listen and share with your classroom. Celebrate Diversity. Meet a new Little Leader each day and discover how others with positive thoughts, actions, and feelings, were able to make a difference. YOU can too!
The Morgan County Partnership’s Positive Actions Program celebrates Black History Month “featuring forty trailblazing black women in American history, LITTLE LEADERS educated and inspires as it relates true stories of breaking boundaries and achieving beyond expectations. Irresistible illustrations bring to life both iconic and lesser-known female figures of black history” with Mrs. Hott hosting.
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Book
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
This audiobook and its beautiful accompanying illustrations showcase women who changed the world and is the perfect goodnight book to inspire big dreams.
Featuring 18 trailblazing Black women in American history, Dream Big, Little One is the irresistible adaptation of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History. Among these women, you’ll find heroes, role models, and everyday women who did extraordinary things – bold women whose actions and beliefs contributed to making the world better for generations of girls and women to come. Whether they were putting pen to paper, soaring through the air, or speaking up for the rights of others, the women profiled here were all taking a stand against a world that didn’t always accept them.
The leaders in this book may be little, but they all did something big and amazing, inspiring generations to come.
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GlobalAtlanta interview with Marcelite Harris
The first African-American woman to ascend to the rank of major general in the U.S. Air Force has settled in Atlanta to open the first of what she hopes will become an international chain of urgent health care centers. ©2007 GlobalAtlanta and Agio Press, Inc.
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Amazons of Black Sparta, 2nd Edition: The Women Warriors of Dahomey
The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a ‘small black Sparta,’ residents of Dahomey shared with the Spartans an intense militarism and sense of collectivism. Moreover, the women of both kingdoms prided themselves on bodies hardened from childhood by rigorous physical exercise. But Spartan women kept in shape to breed male warriors, Dahomean Amazons to kill them. Originally palace guards, the Amazons had evolved by the 1760s into professional troops armed mainly with muskets, machetes and clubs. By the 1840s their numbers had grown to 6,000. The Amazons served under female officers and had their own bands, flags and insignia: they outdrilled, outshot and outfought men, became frontline troops and fought tenaciously and with great valor till the kingdom’s defeat by France in 1892.
Updated with a new preface by the author, Amazons of Black Sparta is the product of meticulous archival research and Alpern’s gift for narrative. It will stand as the most compr
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Funeral Service for U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Marcelite J. Harris at Arlington Nationa (2019) 🇺🇸
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The Courageous Six Triple Eight: The All-Black Female Battalion of World War II (Women Warriors of World War II)
When the United States entered World War II, it had to face its own contradictions at home. Opportunities opened up for Black people and women in support of the war effort. But ideas about race and gender didn’t change as swiftly. Read the story of the first all-Black battalion in the Women’s Army Corps–the Six Triple Eight–and its leader, Major Charity Adams. These women bravely confronted the racism and sexism they experienced. And they did it while creating a system to make sure millions of letters and packages got to soldiers fighting in Europe. From the Women Warriors of World War II graphic novel series, this inspiring story will introduce readers to heroes who were victorious in more ways than one.
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Women’s History Month: Honoring Major General Marcelite J. Harris
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Once again we see what happens when preparedness and opportunity come together. This is true in life and the reason we need to understand the relationship between enlightenment and success. Harris not only broken the stereotype of men only in the military, but the field where she excelled is also non-traditional. It is the individual that is vital to making the equation work. Remember and take this to heart and allow for all options that may appeal to you. Don’t let a committee select your success or failure. You can do it yourself and be committed to success.