and Frederick’s marriage to Elinor

Göttingen home

marriage and husband’s infidelity

physical beauty

poor treatment of Elinor

relationship with son Frederick

support for Third Reich

Albert, Stephen

birth

childhood

experiences as mixed-race child

and father’s love of jazz music

on parents

Allen, Edward

Allied Reparations Committee

Almond, Edward “Ned”

American Institute of Baking (Chicago)

American Nurses Association

American Red Cross

Gladys Powell in

recruitment of black nurses

See also International Red Cross

anti-Semitism

Arizona

black population

cotton farming

Florence’s local residents

Phoenix

POWs and cotton picking labor

Tucson

See also Camp Florence (Arizona POW camp); Fort Huachuca (southern Arizona)

Armed Forces Radio

Armstrong, Louis

Army and Navy Relief Fund

army nurses. See black army nurses of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps

Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary (Spelman College)

Austria, postwar

Baker, Chet

Ballard, Pamela

Bandy, Robert

Basie, Count

Bechet, Sidney

Bethune, Mary McLeod

black army nurses of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps

assignments to POW camps

basic training at Fort Huachuca

at Camp Florence POW camp

differential treatment of German POWs and

discriminatory treatment

Elinor’s decision to join

enlistment challenges

foreign/overseas assignments

friendly relations with German POWs

hospital work

racist treatment by German POWs

Staupers’s efforts to ensure equal treatment

Truman’s Executive Order banning segregation

wartime nursing shortage and proposed conscription

black nurses

NACGN

nursing schools and curricula

Red Cross recruitment

state board examinations and qualifications

wartime nursing shortage and proposed draft

See also black army nurses of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps

Black Power

black soldiers in the U.S. military

at Fort Huachuca

mixed-race children born to

in postwar occupied Germany

racist discrimination and Jim Crow segregation

relationships between enlisted men and white officers

World War I

World War II

Bolton, Frances

Boston, Massachusetts

black population

Elinor and Frederick’s early married life in

race riots and the Irish (1800s)

racial activism and early civil rights movement

residential segregation and housing restrictions

Boston Custom House

Bousefield, Midian Othello

Bradley, Omar

Brandner, Kristina

on the Alberts’ Göttingen home

on Gladys Albert’s treatment of Elinor

Brooke, Edward

“brown babies” (mischlingskinder)

Bryan, B. M.

Buffalo Soldiers

Camp Florence (Arizona POW camp)

black nurses’ barracks and private rooms

black nurses’ experiences

black nurses’ friendly relations with POWs

black nurses’ hospital work

black nurses’ isolation

black nurses’ social outlets and recreation

camaraderie between POWs and guards

camp newspaper (Der Ruf)

Catholic chapel and religious services

cotton picking labor

desert landscape setting

Elinor and Frederick’s relationship at

Elinor and Frederick’s trysts and hidden encounters

Elinor’s assignment to

Frederick at

Frederick’s arrival and processing

Frederick’s baking classes

Frederick’s kitchen job

Frederick’s volunteer work in hospital

Italian POWs at

Jim Crow segregation and discrimination

and local residents of Florence

postwar repurposing as prison/state hospital

prisoners’ canteen

prisoners’ clothing/uniforms

prisoners’ escape attempts

prisoners’ separation (hard-core Nazis and those who renounced Hitler)

prisoners’ treatment and relative freedom

routines and schedules

at war’s end