Millie Dunn Veasey, who taught four years at Thomas Hunter High School in Mathews in the mid-1950s, has been honored in Raleigh, North Carolina, her hometown. In Mathews, she taught business and eighth grade English.
Earlier this year, the post office located at 2777 Brentwood Road in Raleigh was renamed the “Millie Dunn Veasey Post Office” following Congressional approval of legislation sponsored by Rep. Deborah Ross (D-Raleigh).
Born in 1918, Veasey was a World War II Army veteran, serving in the famed the 6888 Central Postal Director Battalion, the only all-female and all-black battalion to serve overseas during the war. The unit was recently highlighted in the new Netflix movie “The Six Triple Eight.”
Veasey was a graduate of both Saint Augustine’s University and North Carolina Central University.
After college graduation and her first teaching post in Mathews, she returned to North Carolina, led the local NAACP during the years that African Americans began to push for their civil ...