{"id":57535,"date":"2019-02-09T02:33:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T02:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57535"},"modified":"2019-02-09T02:34:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T02:34:51","slug":"overlooked-no-more-mabel-grammer-whose-brown-baby-plan-found-homes-for-hundreds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57535","title":{"rendered":"Overlooked No More: Mabel Grammer, Whose Brown Baby Plan Found Homes for Hundreds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overlooked No More: Mabel Grammer, Whose Brown Baby Plan Found Homes for Hundreds<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2019-02-06<\/p>\n

Alexis Clark<\/strong><\/a>, Adjunct Faculty
\nColumbia Journalism School, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMabel Grammer, who started the Brown Baby<\/a> Plan to help mixed-race children in Germany<\/a>. She adopted 12, and found homes for 500 others. Associated Press<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Since 1851, many remarkable black men and women did not receive obituaries in The New York Times. This month, with Overlooked<\/a>, we\u2019re adding their stories to our archives.<\/em><\/p>\n

Grammer\u2019s self-run adoption agency made it possible for unwanted mixed-race children in Germany<\/a> to find homes after World War II<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

They were called \u201cbrown babies<\/a>,\u201d or \u201cmischlingskinder,\u201d a derogatory German term for mixed-race children. And sometimes they were just referred to as mutts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They were born during the occupation years in Germany after World War II<\/a>, the offspring of German women and African-American soldiers. Their fathers were usually transferred elsewhere and their mothers risked social repercussions by keeping them, so the babies were placed in orphanages.<\/p>\n

But when Mabel Grammer, an African-American journalist, became aware of the orphaned children, she stepped in. She and her husband, an army chief warrant officer stationed in Mannheim<\/a>, and later Karlsruhe<\/a>, adopted 12 of them, and Grammer found homes for 500 others…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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