A discarded term!? I guess Bill Kemp has never visited this blog. I’m grateful for this little piece of our history.
Booker T. Washington Home offered safe haven for black children
By Bill Kemp Archivist/librarian McLean County Museum of History | Posted: Saturday, December 12, 2009
For much of the 20th century, Bloomington-Normal residents thought it necessary to [...]
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segregated orphans
Posted in biracial, civil rights, equality, history, race, tagged biracial, booker t. washington, civil rights, mulatto, orphanage, race, segregation on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
re: sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree
Posted in civil rights, equality, faith, history, race, tagged bigotry, golliwogg, kkk, racial stereotypes, racism, stereotypes on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are excerpts from two stories similar to the one I posted yesterday. You can read them in their entirety HERE.
Her Father’s Daughter
Cindy Foster will never forget the face in the window.
She woke up in the middle of the night, sat up in bed, and saw a man — she believes it was a white [...]
sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree
Posted in biracial, civil rights, history, race, tagged american history, civil rights, gay rights, harriet tubman, kkk, martin luther king jr, mixed race, mulatto, race, racism on December 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thank God! This is such an amazing story. I’m so fascinated. Not only by the bravery of a little white girl who crossed KKK, but also the shades of “mulatto” history sprinkled throughout. Coon-hunting based on the supposed threat that black males posed to white women. The “black” member of the Klan. Passing. Male chauvinism. [...]
instead of being a white man (he) is a mulatto
Posted in biracial, civil rights, history, race, tagged civil war, digital library on american slavery, race and slavery petitions, runaway slaves, slavery, united states history on December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Web Site Tells Forgotten Tales of Slavery
By Dan Nonte and Lanita Withers Goins, University Relations
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The 1860 U.S. Census registered the names of slave owners and the age, gender and color of slaves. But there, as in much of the historical record, slaves are nameless.
UNCG’s new Digital Library on American Slavery provides the names of more [...]
speaking of the underground railroad
Posted in civil rights, equality, history, photos, race, tagged harriet tubman, the underground railroad on December 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was a bit obsessed with it for a brief period of my childhood.
I think this photograph is stunning.
A face of a woman who knows.
Full-length portrait of Araminta “Minty” Ross (better known as Harriet Tubman), seated in chair, probably at her home in Auburn, NY 1911.
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speaking of adoption
Posted in biracial, civil rights, equality, history, photos, race, tagged mary c. thorne, wilbur h. siebert on December 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m not happy to be posting something connected to Ohio State University, BUT I’d never heard of an adoption like this one and I found it rather interesting, so pardon me fellow Wolverines…
Mary C. Thorne and Family
This is a portrait of Mary C. Thorne of Selma, Clark County, Ohio, with her family. The woman standing [...]
“race mixing is communism”
Posted in civil rights, equality, history, race, tagged 1959, civil rights, desegregation, little rock nine, protests, race mixing, segregation on December 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I guess we have come a long way, tho we’ve got so far to go…
a terrific struggle for supremacy!?
Posted in history, race, tagged black and white twins, genetics on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Savannah Tribune, October 7, 1911. Seems like the phenomenon of albinism was not as widely understood as one might think circa 1911.
I assume that said “recreation pier” was a place of cheap amusement–a midway of some sort. Nobody wasted any time capitalizing on the cash value of these infants. The bit about race supremacy [...]
’splainin’ to do
Posted in humor, race on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
fair and good features….on the dark half
Posted in biracial, history, nature, race, tagged biracial, circus freaks, kaadaa, mixed race on December 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Good Lord!!
San Jose Mercury Evening News, November 30, 1887. Here’s the “tragic mulatto” principle taken to extremes by cruel Nature. Or then again, maybe circus life would have offered more to this kid than whatever hardscrabble misery awaited him in post-Redemption Florida. If only we had a name other than “it” for the child in [...]
