Oneida Miller Stuart |
Oneida Miller, 1943 | World War II, 1939-1946
Army Nurse Corps
Nichols General Hospital
Louisville, Kentucky
Indianapolis, IN
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Soldiers wounded in wartime might be expected to be grateful for aid and comfort from any woman in a nurse's uniform. But as Oneida Miller discovered in 1945 working the wards of Nichols General Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, some GIs didn't want her ministrations, solely because of the color of her skin. Miller grew up in Indianapolis, and her comparisons between her hometown and the city in which she served for at the end of World War II might surprise some people who assumed Jim Crow flourished only south of the Ohio River.
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