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"Six Triple Eight"
2025-03-06 14:00:00 2025-03-06 16:15:00 America/New_York Film Celebrate Women's History Month with an inspiring 2024 film based on a true story that highlights an all-Black, all-female unit in World War II. Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library - Meeting Room

Thursday, March 06
2:00pm - 4:15pm

Add to Calendar 2025-03-06 14:00:00 2025-03-06 16:15:00 America/New_York Film Celebrate Women's History Month with an inspiring 2024 film based on a true story that highlights an all-Black, all-female unit in World War II. Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library - Meeting Room

Celebrate Women's History Month with an inspiring 2024 film based on a true story that highlights an all-Black, all-female unit in World War II.

During World War II, 855 women joined the fight to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. Faced with discrimination and a country devastated by war, they managed to sort more than 17 million pieces of mail ahead of time. Rated PG-13. 2024

AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Movies & Film | Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion |

TAGS: | Women's History Month | war | National Women's History Month | inspiring | history | drama | black history | #womenshistorymonth |

Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library
jlambert@alexlibraryva.org
Phone: 703.746.1704
Fax: 703.746.1775
Branch manager
Jherusha Lambert
Hours
We're closed Monday February 17 due to George Washington Day
Mon, Feb 17 Closed
(George Washington Day)
Tue, Feb 18 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Feb 19 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Thu, Feb 20 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, Feb 21 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sat, Feb 22 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Feb 23 1:00PM to 5:00PM
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