The Graysville Melungeons from Tennessee Anthropologist, Vol IV, No. 1, 1979. by Raymond Evans Abstract Located approximately 30 miles north of Chattanooga, the community of Graysville, Tennessee contains one of the most stable Melungeon settlements in the state. Field work in the community conducted in conjunction with archival research demonstrates that the Melungeons, who now […]
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“Melungeons Yesterday and Today– Thirty Years Later” by Wayne Winkler, 2005 article
Melungeons Yesterday and Today – Thirty Years Later by Wayne Winkler A few weeks ago, my mother was visiting our home to meet her new grandson. We talked about my late father’s Melungeon family, and my mother mentioned one uncle whom she was pretty certain would never have acknowledged his Melungeon heritage. I went to […]
Lewis M. Jarvis article from Hancock County Times, 1903
Lewis Jarvis article As transcribed by William Grohse, historian of Hancock County, Tennessee from the Hancock County Times Sneedville, Tennessee, 17 April 1903 Much has been said and written about the inhabitants of Newman’s Ridge and Blackwater in Hancock County, Tenn. They have been derisively dubbed with the name “Melungeons” by the local white people […]
“The Melungens,” Littel’s Living Age article, 1849
The Melungens Note: Littel’s Living Age was a popular magazine of the early nineteenth century that reprinted articles from other publications for national distribution. This article may have been published in Louisville, Kentucky, as early as 1847. It appeared as an unsigned article in the Knoxville Register of September 6, 1848, and was published in […]
“The So-Called Moors of Delaware,” 1895 article
The So-Called Moors of Delaware by George P. Fisher Milford Herald, 15 June 1895 Reprinted by the Public Archives Commission of Delaware, 1929 When I was a boy and young man, the general impression prevailing in the several parts of this State where this race of people had settled was that they had sprung from […]
Walter Plecker Controversy with NAACP (1925 article)
Walter A. Plecker Walter Ashby Plecker was the head of Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics for most of the 20th century. He believed “there is a danger of the ultimate disappearance of the white race in Virginia, and the country, and the substitution therefor of another brown skin, as has occurred in every other country […]
