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Over 200 wartime letters reveal the courtship and marriage of a Black WWII soldier and a Nashville medical student amid segregation and separation.
Over 200 love letters between William Raymond Whittaker, a Black WWII soldier from New York, and Jane Dean, a Meharry Medical College student in Nashville, reveal their courtship and marriage during World War II.
Reconnected after Whittaker’s 1942 draft, their correspondence, now digitized by the Nashville Public Library, shows growing affection amid wartime separation, racial segregation, and personal uncertainty.
Jane, a medical lab technician, initially responded cautiously but later agreed to marry, and they wed in November 1942.
The letters, donated in 2016, also include photographs and personal items, offering rare insight into African American life during the war.
Más de 200 cartas de la guerra revelan el cortejo y matrimonio de un soldado negro de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y un estudiante de medicina de Nashville en medio de la segregación y la separación.