BLOOD DROPS
Quote for Today - Second Day of Black History Month
"Negro blood is sure powerful - because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop - you are a Negro! ... Black is powerful."
Langston Hughes [1902-1967] Simple Takes a Wife [1953]
Some background for who is considered a Negro. It was called the "one drop rule". "Every person having one-eight or more of African or Negro blood." Florida State Constitution, 1927; "Any person who has in his or her veins any Negro blood whatever." Arkansas State Constitution, Acts, 1941
Statue on top: Langston Hughes as a boy delivering the Saturday Evening Post in one hand and one hand a book by W.E.B. Du Bois. "James Patti created this statue of Hughes in connection with the 1976 Bicentennial celebration. The statue was made using a twelve-piece mold coated with three layers of polyester resin mixed with bronze powder. It was then filled with a mixture of polyester resin, silicate sand, and marble dust."
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