{"id":16976,"date":"2011-10-11T22:14:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T22:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16976"},"modified":"2011-10-11T22:14:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T22:14:23","slug":"plain-people-is-there-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16976","title":{"rendered":"PLAIN PEOPLE: Is There Anywhere?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,776681,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">PLAIN PEOPLE: Is There Anywhere?&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\">Time Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n1946-03-11<\/p>\n<p>Prewar Britain&#8217;s Negro problem was as minuscule as prewar Britain&#8217;s Negro population. But the 70,000 U.S. Negro troops who served in Britain during <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">the war<\/a> left behind hundreds of illegitimate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a> babies. Last fortnight London&#8217;s League of Colored Peoples reported that already 544 children of U.S. Negro soldiers and British women were in social or economic straits.<\/p>\n<p>So long as the Negro fathers were in the U.S. Army and acknowledged paternity, the mothers received support allowances. In the British provinces $85 a month was comparative riches. But when Negro soldiers were demobilized in the U.S., allowances ceased; some Negro fathers neglected to make any other provision. Then the social pressure of British provincial respectability became unbearable. Said one British mother of a Negro&#8217;s child: &#8220;I am shunned by the whole village. . . . The inspector for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has told my friend to keep her children away from my house&#8230; as didn&#8217;t she know that I had two illegitimate colored children? Is there anywhere I can go where my children will not get&#8230; pushed around?&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,776681,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLAIN PEOPLE: Is There Anywhere?&#8230; Time Magazine 1946-03-11 Prewar Britain&#8217;s Negro problem was as minuscule as prewar Britain&#8217;s Negro population. But the 70,000 U.S. Negro troops who served in Britain during the war left behind hundreds of illegitimate mulatto babies. Last fortnight London&#8217;s League of Colored Peoples reported that already 544 children of U.S. Negro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,4481,10,20],"tags":[3521],"class_list":["post-16976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-social-work","category-uk","category-usa","tag-time-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}