Chapters (19)
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Author’s Note
- Introduction
- 1. Elinor
- 2. Frederick
- 3. Fighting Hitler and Jim Crow
- 4. German POWs in the United States
- 5. Prisoners and Nurses
- 6. A Forbidden Romance
- 7. End of War
- 8. An Uncertain Future
- 9. Searching for Acceptance
- 10. Finally Home
- Postscript
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
Germany, postwar
African Americans and Germans in
American occupation
civilian deaths
concentration camps
devastation
Elinor and Frederick’s residence in Göttingen
German immigration to the U.S.
mixed-race children (“brown babies” or mischlingskinder)
POWs’ return to
racial discrimination against black soldiers
racial prejudice against mixed-race couples
G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II (Tomblin)
Gillespie, Dizzy
Girl Scouts of America
Göttingen, Germany
Elinor and Frederick’s residence at the Albert home
Jews of
right-wing ideas and racism
Grammer, Mabel
Grammer, Oscar
Great Britain
black nurses assigned to English hospitals
German POWs and postwar labor
POW agreement with U.S.
Great Depression
Great German Art Exhibition
Great Migration
Hackbarth, Karl-Heinz
Harlem, New York
race riots (1943)
tuberculosis epidemic
Harlem Renaissance
Haus, Fritz
Hayden, Carl
Hicks, Ora
Hitler, Adolf
the Alberts and
and “degenerate art,”
occupation of Poland
POWs’ attitudes toward
rise of
suicide
See also Germany, Nazi (Hitler’s Third Reich)
Hitler Youth
Holiday, Billie
Hoover, J. Edgar
Horne, Lena
Hotel Braddock (Harlem)
House Military Affairs Committee
Howard University (Washington, D.C.)
Immigration and Naturalization Act (1924)
immigration to the U.S., postwar German
International Red Cross
interracial (mixed-race) couples
Elinor and Frederick’s challenges as mixed-race family
Gallup poll of white Americans’ opinions on (1958)
interracial marriage laws
landlords, mortgages, and housing restrictions
mixed-race children in the U.S.
obtaining life insurance
in postwar occupied Germany
prejudicial treatment in postwar America
prejudicial treatment in postwar Germany
school enrollment and segregation in Morton, Pennsylvania
Village Creek community in South Norwalk, Connecticut
Italian prisoners of war (POWs)
jazz music
in the Albert family household
black musicians
Chris Albert’s career
Frederick’s passion for
Hitler’s opinion of
V-Discs and U.S. military personnel
Jenkins, Dorothy
Jim Crow system. See racial discrimination and segregation (Jim Crow laws)
Johnson, Joe
Kentucky
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kirk, Norman T.
labor unions
Lammersdorf, Hans
Lincoln School for Nurses (Bronx, New York)
Little, Robert
Littlefield, Samuel
Louis, Joe
Louisville, Kentucky
lynchings
Magee, James
Magma-Arizona Railroad Company
Mahoney, Mary Eliza
March on Washington
“marriage bars”
Massachusetts Historical Commission
May, Andrew J.
May Bill
Media, Pennsylvania
Miller Stuart, Oneida
Milton, Massachusetts
Gladys Powell’s community work
history
integrated Girl Scouting
Littlefield/Powell house on Granite Place
Powell family
Powell’s Emerson Road house
racial tolerance and progressiveness
Milton High School
Milton Record
mischlingskinder (“brown babies”)
mixed-race children
(“brown babies” or mischlingskinder) in post-occupation Germany
school enrollment and segregation in Morton, Pennsylvania
Stephen Albert’s experiences
Mögel, Friedrich
Montgomery, Bernard
Moore, Gwyneth Blessitt
assistance with Frederick’s immigration to the U.S.
and Elinor and Frederick’s relationship at Camp Florence
experiences of discrimination and treatment at Camp Florence
on German POWs’ kindness toward black nurses
postwar
Morton School Board (Morton, Pennsylvania)
NACGN. See National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN)
Nash Engineering Company
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Boston branch
and Elinor’s stand on school segregation
National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN)
National Council of Negro Women