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III1fioestp started when t!|e census ; enumeration was taken nearly a year it£t», when the t’lamorgnn family of 8t» Louis listed them-!' selves as of Indian descent, brought about the discovery lastwe.dc that Hit* family really wflu of negro dtmmt. A roman who {lived in the same neighborhood told the enumerator that the fnm- jlt; fly had deceived him, that they were not Indiana but negroes,Thii gossip continued and re* cimlly when a baby was born tojMra, U p. J. Davjf, who wasMaud riatnurgnn, the suspicionthat had bean directed against h the family was confirmed in !he|i minds of the neighbors. The ohild showed every charaoteriatio of negro blood. The result is thewrecking of two homes, the banishment of children Innocent uf their inferior birth from homo* where they were received on an equality and from schools they had attended for years.1I
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Doniphan Ripley County Democrat
Doniphan, Missouri, US
Fri, Jun 23, 1911
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