Hilde Bial-Neurath
The Bial-Neurath Family
Durham
In 1938, Hans was offered a position as assistant professor in the Biochemistry Department at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Hans accepted the offer, but with some apprehension. “It was difficult to ignore, let alone accept the strict separation of races.” It is easy to imagine that the attempts at segregation experienced in Vienna and Berlin had made Hans and Hilde particularly sensitize to such issues. Durham was a strictly segregated community, with separate clinics for whites and blacks, separate entrances to public transportation vehicles, movie houses, etc. But eventually they came to tolerate the politically conservative and generally segregationist environment. And they could always retreat to family life, especially after November 3, 1942 when their son Peter was born.
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