{"id":58581,"date":"2019-07-20T23:29:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T23:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58581"},"modified":"2019-07-26T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T00:09:08","slug":"light-bright-and-damn-near-white-black-leaders-created-by-the-one-drop-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58581","title":{"rendered":"Light, Bright and Damn Near White: Black Leaders Created by the One-Drop Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

Light, Bright and Damn Near White: Black Leaders Created by the One-Drop Rule<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

JacksonScribe Publishing Company
\n2014-09-24
\n418 pages
\n6 x 1 x 9 inches
\nPaperback ISBN-13: 978-0985351205<\/p>\n

Michelle Gordon Jackson<\/strong><\/a>
\nForeword by: Adam Clayton Powell IV<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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During the 19th and 20th centuries, a powerhouse of Black American leaders emerged, consisting primarily of men and women with \u201can apparent mix of Caucasoid<\/a> features.\u201d The face of the African warrior, brought to America centuries prior from the Ivory Coast<\/a> had changed, due to perpetual miscegenation<\/a> (race-mixing) and the application of the One-Drop Rule<\/a>, a racial marker exclusive to the United States<\/a>, in which a person was considered Black if he or she had any African ancestry.<\/p>\n

No other country in the world has historically defined race in the same manner. Accepted socially and legally since slavery, this \u201crule,\u201d as well as its strict enforcement, created a dynamic leadership pool of Light, Bright and Damn Near White<\/em> revolutionaries, embraced by the Black community as some of its most vocal and active leaders.<\/p>\n

This book features these unsung Black heroes and heroines (covering the Slavery, Reconstruction<\/a>, Jim Crow<\/a>, and Civil Rights eras<\/a>). Some born slaves and some born free, these men and women were on the forefront of civil rights, innovation, and social reform. Their personal contributions are woven within the very fabric of American culture and policy.<\/p>\n

The continued acceptance of the One-Drop Rule is apparent, in America\u2019s embracing of Barack Obama<\/a> as the first Black President of the United States, and not the first bi-racial president, despite his mother\u2019s race (White).<\/p>\n

This informative book is about history . . . American History and African-American History.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accepted socially and legally since slavery, this \u201crule,\u201d as well as its strict enforcement, created a dynamic leadership pool of Light, Bright and Damn Near White revolutionaries, embraced by the Black community as some of its most vocal and active leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,459,8,17,6462,26,820,6940,23674,20],"tags":[30053,30055,18248,24762,333,30061,898,897,30057,88,9754,13512,26908,22180,30052,1996,23346,30059,30054,30062,7712,30056,10335,30060,2191,9835,30058,6786,15487,482],"class_list":["post-58581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-passing-2","category-politics","category-religion","category-slavery","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-adam-clayton-powell-iv","tag-adam-clayton-powell-jr","tag-alexander-twilight","tag-blanche-kelso-bruce","tag-charles-chesnutt","tag-charles-richard-drew","tag-charles-w-chesnutt","tag-charles-waddell-chesnutt","tag-daniel-hale-williams","tag-ellen-craft","tag-fredi-washington","tag-harriet-ann-jacobs","tag-henriette-delille","tag-henry-walton-bibb","tag-jacksonscribe-publishing-company","tag-jean-toomer","tag-john-mercer-langston","tag-maggie-lena-walker","tag-michelle-gordon-jackson","tag-mordecai-wyatt-johnson","tag-patrick-francis-healy","tag-pinckney-benton-stewart-pinchback","tag-richard-t-greener","tag-robert-james-harlan","tag-robert-purvis","tag-timothy-thomas-fortune","tag-victoria-earle-matthews","tag-walter-francis-white","tag-william-cooper-nell","tag-william-wells-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58581","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=58581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58583,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58581\/revisions\/58583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}