5. “Edward William Brooke III, 1919–2015,” United States House of Representatives, history.house.gov/People/Detail?id=9905.

6. Milton Cemetery records, Gladys E. Powell.

7. Gladys E. Powell obituary, Milton Record, June 4, 1948.

8. Hope Taylor interview, October 24, 2014.

9. Ibid.

11. David Imhoof, Becoming a Nazi Town: Culture and Politics in Göttingen Between the World Wars (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013), 7.

13. Hope Taylor interview, October 28, 2014.

14. Clarence Lusane, Hitler’s Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans, and African-Americans in the Nazi Era (New York: Routledge, 2002), 55, 90, 110–112, 140–143.; “Blacks During the Holocaust,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005479.

15. Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria, “Transatlantic Adoption: Mabel A. Grammer and the Brown Baby Plan,” The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs and Germany, www.aacvr-germany.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=136&Itemid=11; “Homes Needed for 10,000 Brown Orphans,” Ebony, October 1948, 19, NAACP General File. Library of Congress; Letters from 1946 to Walter White of the NAACP from Les Amis Des Enfants de France, American Committee to Aid the Italian-Negro GI Babies, and W.E.B. Du Bois. NAACP General File, Box 11, A642 “Brown Babies,” Library of Congress.; Claudia Levy. “Mabel Grammer Dies,” Washington Post, June 26, 2002.

16. Heide Fehrenbach, Race After Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 40.

17. Ibid.

18. Ibid., 42.

19. Ibid., 43.

20. Kristina Brandner interview, June 22, 2012.

21. Kristina Brandner email to Alexis Clark, March 20, 2016.

22. Kristina Brandner interview, June 22, 2012.

23. Charlotte Tutsek interview, May 25, 2014.

24. Kristina Brandner interview, June 22, 2012.

25. Kristina Brandner email to Alexis Clark, February 26, 2016.

26. Hope Taylor interview, October 24, 2014.

10. Finally Home

1. Alethea Felton interview, April 7, 2013.

2. Letter to Morton School Board written by Elinor Albert, from personal family scrapbook.

3. Handwritten letter from Josephine L. Shumate of the NAACP to Elinor Albert, May 24, 1954.

4. Hope Taylor interview, May 12, 2016.

5. Hope Taylor interview, October 24, 2014; Chris Albert interview, May 8, 2012.

6. Maria P.P. Root, Love’s Revolution: Interracial Marriages (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001), 164–165.

7. James R. Browning, “Anti-Miscegenation Laws in the United States,” Duke Law Journal 1, no. 1 (1951).

8. Alethea Felton interview, April 7, 2013.

9. Chris Albert interview, June 29, 2012. “There was shit that had gone down,” said Chris about Frederick’s time in Chicago. “My father—he wasn’t obviously a man’s man but he would fuck around. I think specifically when he went to the Baking Institute, because when he came back, it was like, he was gone for months at a time, and I don’t know if it was over a course of six months or a year that he came back. but there was discord that I later learned about.”

10. Alberta Eiseman, “Keeping a Post War Dream Alive,” New York Times, August 4, 1996; Alan Bisbort, “Village of Light,” Connecticut Magazine, June 2011.

11. Alan Bisbort, “Village of Light.”

12. Eiseman, “Keeping a Post War Dream Alive.”

13. Bisbort, “Village of Light.”

14. Lisa Prevost, “A Planned Community Stays the Course,” New York Times, September 24, 2010.

15. Gallup Poll, 1958 (“Question: Do you approve or disapprove of marriage between blacks and whites?”), www.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-whites.aspx.

16. Chris Albert interview, May 8, 2012.

17. Chris Albert interview, August 17, 2012.

18. Ibid., 2012.

19. Chris Albert interview, June 29, 2012.

20. Chris Albert interview, August 17, 2012.