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Jackie O - descends from the van Salee's, a family who were described as "mulatto" in the 17th century. They trace lineage to Dutch mariner an Jensen. Anthony van Salee was exiled to what would become Brooklyn. When asked about her van Salee roots during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, she called her ancestors "Jewish." - her socialite father, b 1891, was nicknamed "Black Jack" Bouvier for his swarthy complexion.
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In 1930 a person of mixed Indian and Negro blood 'shall be returned as a Negro unless the Indian blood predominates and the status as an Indian is generally accepted in the community.' By 1940 all African - American hybrids were to be counted as 'negroes' unless the Indian ancestry 'very definitely predominates and he is universally accepted as a Indian.
Melungeons girls. Melungeons are a mix of African American, White European, and Native American. (Usually Cherokee) They settled in Eastern Tennessee and Western NC. I have this in my ancestry on my mother's side. Eastern Tennessee, Cherokee Indian, Western Nc, Wilde Westen, Life Paintings, Photo Postcard
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Melungeons girls. Melungeons are a mix of African American, White European, and Native American. (Usually Cherokee) They settled in Eastern Tennessee and Western NC. I have this in my ancestry on my mother's side.
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AFFRILACHIANS | The term Affrilachian, coined in the early 1990's by Kentucky poet Frank X Walker. Walker sought to recognize people who are both African American and Appalachian, and to recover the multiracial identify of the region. The people of the southern mountains were, from early settlement days, a community of white, Native American, and African American families. Photo: AME Zion Congregation (courtesy of Hunter Library Special Collections, WCU)
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