1. Short title This Act may be cited as the ‘Six Triple Eight’ Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) On July 1, 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law legislation that established the Women’s Army Corps (referred to in this section as the WAC ) as a component in the Army. The WAC was converted from the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (referred to in this section as the WAAC ), which had been created in 1942 without official military status. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of the National Council of Negro Women, advocated for the admittance of African-American women into the newly formed WAC to serve as officers and enlisted personnel. (2) Dubbed 10 percenters , the recruitment of African-American women to the WAAC was limited to 10 percent of the population of the WAAC to match the proportion of African Americans in the national population. Despite an Executive order issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941 banning racial discrimination in civilian defense industries, the Armed Forces remained segregated. Enlisted women served in segregated units, participated in segregated training, lived in separate quarters, ate at separate tables in mess halls, and used segregated recreational facilities. Officers received their officer candidate training in integrated units but lived under segregated conditions. Specialist and technical training schools were integrated in 1943. During World War II, a total of 6,520 African-American women served in the WAAC and the WAC. (3) After several units of White women were sent to serve in the European theater of operations (referred to in this section as the ETO ) during World War II, African-American organizations advocated for the War Department to extend the opportunity to serve overseas to African-American WAC units. (4) In November 1944, the War Department approved sending African-American women to serve in Europe. A battalion of all African-American women drawn from the WAC,