{"id":48994,"date":"2016-09-07T01:28:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T01:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48994"},"modified":"2016-09-07T01:28:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T01:28:15","slug":"and-there-we-see-that-in-1940-the-first-and-most-recent-census-in-the-list-before-my-mother-was-born-and-when-my-grandmother-was-a-widow-by-her-first-husband-my-grandmother-and-her-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48994","title":{"rendered":"And there, we see that in 1940\u2014the first and most recent census in the list\u2014before my mother was born and when my grandmother was a widow by her first husband, my grandmother and her first five children, ages 13, 10, 8, 6, and 1, are all classified as \u201cC\u201d for \u201ccolored.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

And yet, it is shockingly easy for me to locate the information. Instead of showing us the microfiche<\/a> records that I thought we\u2019d have to comb through, the librarian says it\u2019s easier if we just access their subscription to Ancestry.com, and so leads us past the exhibits to the room with the large wooden desks and logs us in on one of the computer stations. And there, we see that in 1940\u2014the first and most recent census in the list\u2014before my mother was born and when my grandmother was a widow by her first husband, my grandmother and her first five children, ages 13, 10, 8, 6, and 1, are all classified as \u201cC\u201d for \u201ccolored.\u201d When we click on the 1930 census, she and her first two children are designated as \u201cNeg\u201d: \u201cnegro.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ashlie Kauffman, \u201cOur Secret Family Legacy<\/a>,\u201d The Rumpus<\/em>, August 31, 2016. http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2016\/08\/our-secret-family-legacy\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And yet, it is shockingly easy for me to locate the information. Instead of showing us the microfiche records that I thought we\u2019d have to comb through, the librarian says it\u2019s easier if we just access their subscription to Ancestry.com, and so leads us past the exhibits to the room with the large wooden desks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24939,14306],"class_list":["post-48994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ashlie-kauffman","tag-the-rumpus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48994","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=48994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48995,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48994\/revisions\/48995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}