Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: William T. Francis
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Early black lawyer, wife endured bigotry Minneapolis Star-Tribune 2016-02-13 Curt Brown Nellie and William Francis were doing so well in 1924 they decided to move four miles southwest in St. Paul — leaving their Rondo neighborhood for a house in the Groveland Park area near the Mississippi River. The 1920 census listed the couple, married…
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A Citizen of Fine Spirit William Mitchell Magazine Volume 18, Issue 2, Fall 2000 pages 2-6 Douglas R. Heidenreich, Emeritus Professor of Law Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, Minnesota Minnesota Historical Society William T. Francis was (1869-1929), by most measures, the most successful of the early African American alumni of William Mitchell College…