1840 Whig Article Negro Speaking! published in the Whig, Jonesboro, Tennessee, 7 October 1840 We have just learned, upon undoubtable authority, that Gen. Combs, in his attempt to address the citizens of Sullivan County, on yesterday, was insulted, contradicted repeatedly, limited to one hour and a half, and most shamefully treated, and withall an effort […]
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“A Note on the Melungeons” by Burnett, 1889 article
1889 Burnett Article A Note on the Melungeons This article was published in the American Anthropologist 2, (October 1889): 347. The lecture was given to the American Antropological Society in February 1889. Legends of the Melungeons I first heard at my father’s knee as a child in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee, and the name […]
“True Story of Delaware’s Moors,” 1896 article
1896 Moors Article True Story of Delaware’s Moors Smyrna (Delaware) Press, 1 January 1896 Down in the southern end of Delaware, thickly settled, especially about Lewes, and scattered as far north as the boundary of KentCounty, one finds a race of men who have been a source of wonder and a puzzle to the historian […]
“The Melungeons” by Paul Converse, 1912 article
The Melungeons by Paul Converse originally published in Southern Collegian (December 1912) 59-69. Clinch is the name of a range of mountains of some height and local prominence that run through upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia about midway between the Alleghenies and Cumberlands. To the east of the Clinch range lies a region in […]
1924 Racial Integrity Act (Virginia)
1924 Racial Integrity Act Virginia’s 1924 Racial Integrity Act Chap. 371. – An ACT to preserve racial integrity. [S B 219] Approved March 20, 1924. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the State registrar of vital statistics may, as soon as practicable after the taking effect of this act, prepare […]
1929 Pamphlet by Walter Plecker
1929 Plecker Pamphlet Legal Percentages of “Negro Blood” Amount of Negro and Other Colored Blood Illegal in Various States for Marriage to Whites: 1929 Walter A. Plecker Walter Ashby Plecker was the head of Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics from 1912 to 1936. He believed “there is a danger of the ultimate disappearance of the […]
