National Nursing Council for War Service

National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party). See Germany, Nazi (Hitler’s Third Reich)

Naval Nurse Corp

New England Conservatory of Music

New England Hospital for Women and Children

New York City

black population

Elinor’s nursing school education

Harlem

Jim Crow segregation

race riots (1943)

tuberculosis epidemic

New York State’s interracial marriage laws

New York Times

Nichols Army Hospital (Louisville, Kentucky)

92nd Division (U.S. Army)

93rd Division (U.S. Army)

Nuremberg Laws

nursing profession

American Nurses Association

black nursing schools

state board examinations and qualifications

wartime nursing shortage and proposed conscription (draft)

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

Office of the Provost Marshal Office

Oppeln, Germany

Owsley, Alvin M.

Parker, Charlie

Patton, George

Pearl Harbor attack (1941)

Pepperidge Farm (Connecticut)

Petty, Mary L.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Phoenix, Arizona

See also Camp Florence (Arizona POW camp)

Phyllis Wheatley School (Morton, Pennsylvania)

Piasecki Helicopter Company (Morton, Pennsylvania)

Pittsburgh Courier

Planned Parenthood

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

P.M. (New York daily)

Poland, Hitler’s occupation of

Polite, Marjorie

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.

Powell, Albert

Powell, Elinor Elizabeth. See Albert, Elinor Elizabeth Powell

Powell, Ellen “Ella” Wade

Powell, Gladys (Elinor’s sister)

Powell, Gladys Farrow (Elinor’s mother)

community work

death

and Elinor’s marriage to Frederick

Girl Scouting

husband’s death and new widowhood

marriage and family

move to Milton, Massachusetts

opinion of Frederick

outspokenness and dominant, bullying personality

relationship with daughter Elinor

Powell, John

Powell, Ruth

Powell, William I.

Powell, William L. (Lawrence) (Elinor’s father)

death

marriage and family

Milton, Massachusetts family and early life

wife’s bullying treatment of

World War I military service in Kentucky

Prairie View A&M University

prisoners of war (POW) camps

assignment of black army nurses to

local residents’ opinions of

postwar closure and re-purposing of

in the rural South

statistics on

See also Camp Florence (Arizona POW camp); German prisoners of war (POWs) in US camps

racial discrimination and segregation (Jim Crow laws)

black army nurses

at Camp Florence

Elinor and Frederick’s avoidance of discussion of

Elinor’s experiences of

at Fort Huachuca

German POWs’ opinions of

and German-born mixed-race children (“brown babies”)

Kentucky

landlords, mortgages, and housing restrictions

lynchings

mixed-race couples and marriage laws

New York City

Plessy v. Ferguson and separate but equal doctrine

restaurants and dining rooms

school segregation in Morton, Pennsylvania

Truman’s Executive Order banning segregation in the military

in the U.S. military and POW camps

by white soldiers in postwar Germany

See also interracial (mixed-race) couples; mixed-race children

Radeke, Ray

Red Cross. See American Red Cross; International Red Cross

Reich Chamber of Visual Arts

Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD) (State Labor Service)

Remond, Charles Lenox

Revolutionary War

Rockefeller, John D.

Rockefeller, Laura Spelman

Rommel, Erwin

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

school segregation

Selective Service and Training Act

Severloh, Hein

Shumate, Josephine L.

Smedley School (Morton, Pennsylvania)

Somerville, Brehon B.

South Norwalk, Connecticut (Village Creek community)

Spelman College

Staupers, Mabel Keaton

efforts to ensure equal treatment of black nurses