| Description |
xvi, 251 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and index. |
| Contents |
Elinor -- Frederick -- Fighting Hitler and Jim Crow -- German POWs in the United States -- Prisoners and nurses -- A forbidden romance -- End of war -- An uncertain future -- Searching for acceptance -- Finally home. |
| Summary |
This is a love story like no other: Elinor Powell was an African American nurse in the U.S. military during World War II; Frederick Albert was a soldier in Hitler's army, captured by the Allies and shipped to a prisoner-of-war camp in the Arizona desert. Like most other black nurses, Eleanor pulled a second-class assignment, in a dusty, sun-baked--and segregated--Western town. The army figured that the risk of fraternization between black nurses and white German POWs was almost nil. Brought together by unlikely circumstances and racist assumptions, Elinor and Frederick should have been bitter enemies; but instead, at the height of World War II, they fell in love. Their dramatic story was unearthed by journalist Alexis Clark, who through years of interviews and historical research has pieced together an astounding narrative of race and true love in the cauldron of war. Based on a New York Times story by Clark that drew national attention, Enemies in Love paints a tableau of dreams deferred and of love struggling to survive, twenty-five years before the Supreme Court's Loving decision legalizing mixed-race marriage--revealing the surprising possibilities for human connection in one of history's most violent conflicts. Amazon. |
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Albert, Elinor Powell, 1921-2005.
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Albert, Frederick.
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Albert, Elinor Powell, 1921-2005.
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Albert, Frederick.
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African American nurses -- Biography.
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Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.
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Prisoners of war -- Arizona -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Arizona -- Prisoners and prisons.
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Interracial dating -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Interracial marriage -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography.
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Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, American.
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Interethnic marriage -- United States.
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United States -- Armed Forces -- Nurses -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
HISTORY / African American.
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HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
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| ISBN |
9781620971864 |
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1620971860 |
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