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American mail carrier (c. 1832 – 1914)

Mary Fields (c. 1832 – December 5, 1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was an American mail carrier who was the first Black woman to be employed as a star routepostwoman in the United States.^[1][2][3][4]

Fields had the star route contract for the delivery of U.S.

mail from Cascade, Montana, to Saint Peter's Mission.

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She drove the route for two four-year contracts, from 1895 to 1899 and from 1899 to 1903. Author Miantae Metcalf McConnell provided documentation discovered during her research about Mary Fields to the United States Postal Service Archives Historian in 2006.

This enabled the USPS to establish Mary Fields' contribution as the first African-American female star route mail carrier in the United States.^[4]

Biography

Early life and career

Fields was born into slavery in Hickman County, Tennessee, c. 1832.

After the American Civil