Tag: Los Angeles Herald

  • A Statistical Octoroon Los Angeles Herald Volume XXIX, Number 2 (1901-10-03) page 4, columns 6-7 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection The Average American Seven Parts White and One Part Colored The average adult American is a statistical octoroon, says Dr. Henry Gannett In Everybody’s Magazine. If the blood in the veins of all our of…

  • Tries to Marry Quadroon Los Angeles Herald Volume 35, Number 31 (1907-11-02) page 2, column 6 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection By Associated Press YUMA, Ariz,, Nov. 1-M. G. Graff, aged 21 years, white, of Riverside, Cal., and Addle Burkhart, aged 20, were refused the office of marriage by Probate Judge Godfrey here today and…

  • Forecast of Miscegenation Los Angeles Herald 1906-07-24 page 6, column 3 Source: Library of Congress: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers In the course of a sermon delivered last Sunday before n local negro audience. Bishop Hamilton of the Methodist church said: “It might create a sensation if I should say a union of the races…