"We were called 'nigger' many a time... But you just kept on going." (24:16)

Oneida Miller Stuart

Oneida Miller, 1943 War: World War, 1939-1945 Branch: Army Nurse Corps Unit: Nichols General Hospital Service Location: Louisville, Kentucky Place of Birth: IN

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.