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Elinor Powell (1921–2005) was an African-American nurse in World War II who married a German prisoner of war. Background [ edit ] Powell was raised in Milton, Massachusetts , where her grandmother moved after she escaped slavery as a teen, travelling north via the Underground Railroad . [1]
- 2005 (aged 83–84)
- 1921, Milton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Mary Kay Linge. Published May 19, 2018, 10:08 a.m. ET. The German POW Freidrich Albert (left) worked in the kitchen and wooed nurse Elinor Powell (right) with secretly made wiener schnitzel and ...
15 de may. de 2013 · Elinor Powell Albert was a nurse who tended to German P.O.W.'s at a camp in Arizona during World War II. She met her husband, Frederick Albert, while he was a prisoner in the camp. Credit...
17 de jun. de 2018 · During World War II, Elinor Powell, an African American nurse, joined the racially segregated army in Jim Crow-era Arizona. The discrimination she faced compounded after she fell in love with...
27 de may. de 2018 · Elinor Elizabeth Powell was from a prominent African-American family from Milton, ... The only thing that was difficult is that Elinor and Frederick really didn't bring up race with their children.
Aided by her fellow nurses, Powell was able to carry on her romance for the duration of the war, keeping it a secret from the white officers and other POWs. When the war ended, Powell and Albert conceived their first son, Stephen, just before Albert was sent back to Germany on a boat in 1946.
15 de may. de 2018 · On the summer afternoon in 1944 that 23-year-old Elinor Powell walked into the Woolworth’s lunch counter in downtown Phoenix, it never occurred to her that she would be refused service. She was ...
