Sunday, February 29, 2004

"Dear, that was all due to the Union army."



From Outside the Magic Circle, the memoir of Virginia Foster Durr, Southern belle turned civil rights activist. This was her father's response when she asked him why some 'negroes' were lighter skinned than others.

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