Against All Odds: the Story of Elinor Powell and Frederick Alber
Copyright© 2025 by Megumi Kashuahara
Chapter 10: Searching for Home
If they’d thought marriage would solve their problems, reality quickly disabused them of that notion.
They tried Boston first. Frederick’s accent, his status as a German immigrant in the immediate aftermath of the war, made finding employment nearly impossible. And an interracial couple? Landlords wouldn’t rent to them. Employers wouldn’t hire him. They couldn’t even enroll Stephen in the school they wanted—he was directed to the “colored” school, despite his father being white.
“We could try Germany,” Frederick suggested reluctantly. “My family ... they won’t be happy, but they won’t turn us away.”
Göttingen, 1948. If America had been difficult, Germany was worse.
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