Reporting on Eduard and Sonya arriving from Frankfurt to join Edward and Margaret Cardwell in Washington, D.C. Contemporary accounts differ in the children’s names; the scans preserve those differences.
Jet · 1953-01-29
Date transcribed from the supplied descriptive filename; original issue has not been independently checked.Jet. From Dr. Rosemarie Peña’s research files.
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German ‘Brown Babies’ Arrive In U. S. Two German “brown babies"—illegitimate children of white mothers and Negro GIs—arrived in Washington, D. C., from Frankfurt to become legal wards of an Amer— ican Negro couple. The waifs, five-year-old Eduard and lat four-year-old Sonya (not related), were met at New York’s Idlewild Airport by their new parents, Washington postal clerk Edward Cardwell and his wife Hattie, a nurse at Freedmen’s Hospital. The Cardwells first learned of the youngsters through Mrs. Oscar G. Grammer, an Army wife living in West Germany who wrote to a Baltimore newspaper, asked for aid in finding Negro families willing to adopt brown babies.
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