and conveyances in the southeastern states she traveled, her complexion likely granted her a privilege that many of the black women she recruited did not possess. curtis s physical appearance was frequently commented upon during her lifetime. reporters described her as a woman of culture and beauty and alternatively as a woman of mystery, and yet history suggests that the white skin privilege she did enjoy she used strategically as a tool of racial advancement, thus to view her solely at face value, to read her efforts, to recruit african-american nurses as nearly the actions of a fair skinned lackey of the mckinley administration desperate to stem the scourge of yellow fever in cuba is to crudely misread the character and portrait of mrs. a.m. curtis. her organization was only a highlight of a public career marked by her remarkable penchant for civil engagement around matters of race and representation. her administrative prowess, proximity to political power, and
family, my efforts have at times seemed anything but inevitable. in truth it was only after this project was largely complete that i inquired about the military travels of my male forbearers. as it turns out leroy coleman, my father s father served as a private in the philippines during the war. while my father s namesake harry polk, sr. harry, sr. served with the 366 infantry aptly captures the intersections of race, labor and masculinity that lay at the heart of my analysis. my aunt ina shared with me a leather bound pictorial history of the regiment that had been passed down in the family and within which my grandfather had taken copious notes. in addition to tagging his friends in the photographs, he kept a detailed list of the nearly 80 places where he had been stationed during the war on the book s final page. in the united states harry, sr. traveled from the tom of the eastern sea board down to louisiana making stops in spartanbering and batten rouge along the way befo
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