From White to Black: The Story of a Black Family that Started off White by Fuller, Geoff

From White to Black: The Story of a Black Family that Started off White (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781499709902)

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From White to Black: The Story of a Black Family that Started off White by Fuller, Geoff

From White to Black: The Story of a Black Family that Started off White

$20.00
From White to Black: The Story of a Black Family that Started off White by Fuller, Geoff

From White to Black: The Story of a Black Family that Started off White

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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Book Quote: "I was getting ready to go out the door to work when the phone rang. I didn't want to answer it, but something told me to pick up the phone. When I did, the voice on the other end said, 'Hello, Louise, this is Alex Haley.' I was shocked!" -Louise "Bunch" King

In 1924, Dr. Walter Plecker championed The Racial Integrity Act, which aimed to maintain racial purity. This law, enacted in Virginia, prohibited interracial marriage and rigidly defined racial categories. Plecker, driven by white supremacist beliefs, reclassified thousands of mixed-race individuals as black without their consent. His infamous assertion that "one drop of Black blood makes one Black and only Black" perpetuated harmful one-drop rule thinking.in 1930 the United States Census Bureau, under pressure from white southern legislators, discontinued using "the racial classification of mulatto" altogether. As a result, the long social recognition of mixed-race people was lost.* The Act was eventually overturned in 1967, but its impact endures. One-drop rule thinking is still so ingrained into American culture that people of all ethnicities don't even notice the continual perpetuation of this belief...But if they pause, and look closely... they will see it.

Author: Geoff Fuller,Tracy M. Lewis
ISBN-10: 1499709900
ISBN-13: 9781499709902
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/18/2014
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
By Geoff Fuller
By Geoff Fuller
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Dr. Tracy Lewis was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia and raised in Los Angeles, California. She has been active in the ministry and in the field of education for many years, serving in several different leadership positions, including Principal, Professor, Administrator, Social Worker, Youth Pastor, and Counselor. She has also served in the United States Air Force. She currently teachers High School English and Social Studies and is a part-time professor at Tulsa Community College. Dr. Lewis has a Ph.D. in Adult Education and Psychology, a Master of Divinity Degree, and a Bachelor's Degree in Biblical History and Theology. She has dedicated her life to the study of the Judeo-Christian Scriptures in their original languages (Greek and Hebrew). Dr. Lewis is a frequent speaker for Christian women's groups, youth groups, and schools. She teaches year-round workshops on Professional Etiquette and Manners and on Anti-Bullying. She is also the author of The Truth about Angels: Hollywood versus the Bible, From White to Black: the Story of a Black Family that Started off White; and Before the King: the Story of Two Mothers.

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