More than 800 Black women formed the 6888th, which began sailing for England in February 1945. Once there, they were confronted not only by mountains of undelivered mail but by racism and sexism.

The remarkable journey began 30 years ago in San Bernardino, when the Diggs family found the Bible in a box of books set to be donated to charity.

A major memorial honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King is moving forward in Boston, where they met and studied in the 1950s.