[1] She was involved with the Tuskegee Airmen from World War II, when she worked for the Red Cross while her husband Aaron trained to become a fighter pilot.
Maycie Herrington quit her job at Mechanics and Farmers Bank where she had been working as a bookkeeper in order to join her husband in Tuskegee, Alabama.
[2] As part of these efforts, she designed and produced a series of trading cards documenting individual members of the Tuskegee Airmen.
[4] Maycie Herrington was hired by the Bureau for Public Assistance as a social worker in 1949, a position that she held for more than 30 years.
In this role, she worked with the Long Beach Area Welfare Planning Council United Way.