200多封战时信件揭露了一名第二次世界大战黑人士兵和一名纳什维尔医科学生在隔离和分离中求爱和结婚的情况。 Over 200 wartime letters reveal the courtship and marriage of a Black WWII soldier and a Nashville medical student amid segregation and separation.

来自纽约的黑人二战士兵威廉·雷蒙德·惠特克与纳什维尔的麦赫里医学院学生简·迪恩之间的200多封情书披露了他们在第二次世界大战期间的求爱和婚姻。 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. 在Whittaker的1942年草案之后,他们现在被纳什维尔公共图书馆数字化的通信显示,在战时分离、种族隔离和个人不确定的情况下,感情日益密切。 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是一名医学实验室技术员,最初反应谨慎,但后来同意结婚,1942年11月结婚。 Jane, a medical lab technician, initially responded cautiously but later agreed to marry, and they wed in November 1942. 2016年捐赠的这些信件还包括照片和个人物品, The letters, donated in 2016, also include photographs and personal items, offering rare insight into African American life during the war.