‘The US Army didn’t treat Black women like humans – Netflix is telling their story’
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. It’s taken 80 years but Netflix is finally telling the shocking story behind the US Army’s World War Two all-Black women battalion and the injustices they faced.
![[Milauna Jackson as Lt. Campbell and Kerry Washington as Major Charity Adams in The Six Triple Eight]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_232583769-2710.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
From Hollywood producer Tyler Perry, and starring A-Lister Kerry Washington, The Six Triple Eight is perfect for those who enjoy retellings of some of the most jaw-dropping, and inspiring events in history, just in time for a cosy Christmas watch. Named after the Women’s Army Corps unit of colour, the film follows Major Charity Adams and her soldiers who were sent to Birmingham, UK in the final year of the war to sort through 17 million letters in just six months.
![[Milauna Jackson as Lt. Campbell, Kerry Washington as Major Charity Adams and Ebony Obsidian as Lena Derriecott King in The Six Triple Eight]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_232584123-64f2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
They did it in just 90 days, but this immense task was not without its challenges. Major Adams and her team (including Lena Derriecott King, played by Ebony Obsidian) faced an onslaught of institutional racism and sexism during Jim Crow era America where racial segregation and workforce discrimination reigned supreme.
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The historic drama reckons with these themes head-on and includes a powerful, true-to-life confrontation between the normally by-the-book Major Adams and a white male superior officer in front of her 800 soldiers, the majority of whom are African-American and female.
