{"id":62512,"date":"2021-12-05T22:11:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T22:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62512"},"modified":"2021-12-06T01:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T01:06:53","slug":"walking-the-color-line-in-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62512","title":{"rendered":"Walking the Color Line in 1909"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walking the Color Line in 1909<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Bygone Brookland<\/a>
\n2020-05-21<\/p>\n

Robert Malesky<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Isabel Wall. Photo from Wall family album, courtesy of Larissa Clayton<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Little 7-year-old Isabel Wall, blonde and blue-eyed, bounced along beside her mother as they walked the two blocks from their home at 1019 Kearny Street<\/a> to the Brookland School<\/a> at 10th and Monroe<\/a>. Isabel was to be enrolled in the first grade.<\/p>\n

The principal, Mary Little, asked some basic questions and then filled out the form to admit the child and let her begin classes. It wasn\u2019t to last. Ten days later, she withdrew the admission, due to \u201cinformation subsequently obtained.\u201d The information? School officials had heard that Isabel\u2019s father, Stephen, though he was light-skinned and had a white wife, was in reality a black man. The Brookland School was for whites only…<\/p>\n

Note from Steven F. Riley: see the book The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America<\/em><\/a> by Daniel J. Sharfstein<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Stephen Wall\u2019s grandfather, also named Stephen (left, from family album), had been a wealthy white plantation owner and slaveholder in Rockingham, North Carolina in the early 19th century. He never married, but fathered many children with some of his enslaved women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,459,1467,8,6462,20],"tags":[32581,32587,32586,32582,32583,32590,32589,32591,32584,32588,32585,25360],"class_list":["post-62512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-brookland","tag-brookland-baptist-church","tag-brookland-citizens-association","tag-brookland-school","tag-bygone-brookland","tag-isabel-wall","tag-lillie-wall","tag-mary-little","tag-robert-malesky","tag-sarah-shoenfeld","tag-stephen-wall","tag-washington-d-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62512","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=62512"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62525,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62512\/revisions\/62525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}