Lt. Col. Phelps. Perhaps the figure is an allegory for the discrimination that black soldiers went through during World War II. Or the struggles, past and present, that all black Americans are born into. Or the uphill battle that is life in its most general form. But for Daniel Keel, [...]
It’s 1942, or maybe early 1943, and in the basement of the Department of the Treasury in Washington D.C., June Whitehurst can’t help but stare at an unfashionable older woman walking toward her. The hair, the cotton hose, the dress, the flat shoes — all of it’s “just terribly old-fashioned,” [...]