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Revealing Black Ancestry To Well-Established Heirs
A genealogy finds a great great great grandmother listed as Black married to White on census rolls. A daughter who passed as white learns of this link and now faces telling her 40-year-old children, who are successful and married, about their hidden ancestry. Her strained family ties and fear of divorce among spouses color the dilemma.
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Prudie
Dear Won
New Orleans
Savannah
Essie Mae Washington- Williams
Strom Thurmond
Prudence