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A NOVEL THAT’S DIFFERENT(By Georgia Douglas Johnson)(Preston News Service)“One Drop of Midnight” is the title of a new novel by Kenneth Phillips Britton that deals with the mixed blood. This is a departure from the old line of racial books, perhaps more like one would find by the author of the “Silver Fleece.”Mr. Britton gets his idea from the poem, entitled “The Octoroon,” by Georgia Douglas Johnson, with special bearing upon the lines that run:“One drop of midnight in the blood of life's pulsating stream.Marks her an alien from her kind, ashade amid its sheen.”This poem has had quite a run. having first appeared in the Liberator Magazine, and then included in the Braithwaite Anthology of Magazine verse and lastly incorporated in a book by the author called “Bronze.”It is interesting to note the view of Mr. Britton as against that given in “Xifirer Heaven.”
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Chicago Broad Ax
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sat, Aug 13, 1927
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