Five Negro Presidents

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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780960229482 ISBN: 0960229485 Label: Helga M. Rogers Manufacturer: Helga M. Rogers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 19 Publication Date: 1965-05-01 Publisher: Helga M. Rogers Studio: Helga M. Rogers
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Who was the first black president? Comment: This pamphlet is only 18 pages long, but they are very provocative pages. Rogers has basically collected some of the accusations in U.S. history where certain figures were said to have "black ancestry". In some of these cases, the black relative is so far back in the family tree that it would only constitute a very small part of the President's genetic history. But those were also the days when the "one-drop rule" was the way that most people thought about race, so having a great great grandparent who was half black meant the same thing as having a black mother or father. Keep in mind that each of the tales here use very superficial means for determining whether or not somebody has black ancestry. You simply cannot determine this from examining a skin color or hair texture. This pamphlet is as much a collection of allegations as it is a documentation of the strange understanding of race in America. Abraham Lincoln is an example of someone who was often accused of having black ancestry. He is supposed to have had darker skin than his black servant William Slade. Lincoln also described himself as having a "dark complexion with coarse black hair and brown eyes". Rogers has included here an old political cartoon showing Lincoln as a sort of Moorish caricature. The most persistent argument so far for the first black president has been for the man on the cover of this pamphlet, Warren G Harding. The primary source of this argument is a book published by William Estabrook Chancellor in which he interviewed Ohio resident who stated that Harding had a black relatives. His "grand uncle" was Oliver Harding, also shown on the cover. Critics argue that Chancellor was motivated by political and personal reasons against Harding, and that the theory is based on local rumors. The "evidence" for some of these black presidents is pretty slim. For example, Thomas Jefferson's mother wasn't a squaw (Native American), she was born in England's Greater London area. The last President is not named, perhaps to invite the reader to speculate, gossip or do his/her own research. Two of the people with the greatest evidence of black ancestry weren't presidents, but they were significant historical figures. One was Hannibal Hamlin, the 15th Vice President (under Lincoln). Rogers here reproduces several quotes showing that Hamlin's skin color was quite an issue at the time. Some believed that Lincoln had deliberately selected a "free black" as his Vice President in order to anger the South. A Union General even stated that he intended to form a military regiment of mulattos "about the complexion of Vice President Hamlin". Another prominent American named in the pamphlet is Alexander Hamilton, who was born in the Virgin Islands. In fact the section on Hamilton is the longest of them all, and one of the most convincing. Rogers suggests that Hamilton's mother was mulatto, and that his brother (from the same parents) was harassed when he moved to the U.S. because people believed that he was black. Included in this section is an early portrait of the Treasurer which shows Hamilton with wooly hair. Rogers was a very interesting historian, probably the first black revisionist. Recent years would have provided lots of material for his research, for example both George W Bush and Colin Powell are descended from England's King Edward I. With Barack Obama having won the Democratic primary, I'm sure he'd be the first to point out that this wasn't the first time in history a candidate's race was made into a campaign issue! "How should I know? One of my ancestors might have jumped the fence." ~Warren Gamaliel Harding, 29th U.S. President Customer Rating: Summary: Is There More? Comment: Though I enjoyed reading the information published in the book, it left me wanting to learn more. I wish it had more substance, more in depth. Customer Rating: Summary: No Big Surprise To Me Comment: I believe and can identify with the accounts of this little book. For example: Every African American can name someone in their own family who can not be distinguished from a white person. If not their own family then close relative or friends can tell you the same things. Now that we have DNA, every person has been found to be of African descent. Hooray! for J. A. Rogers, he was a genius. Customer Rating: Summary: Not a book... Comment: This was only a pamphlet and didn't give true discovered information about the five black presidents. This type of information can not be taught in black history classes because it only hints around information that may or may not be factual. Maybe one day real evidence will be revealed. Customer Rating: Summary: cat happy is wrong. this is a very informative piece of work, Comment: please ignore cat happy's review. in his profile he has indicated that he is a lover of fiction or anything thats "false"! this little book as he puts it is very informative. all the information that was gathered by this authour j.a. rogers was information already written of by white people. all the information,names or news papers or magazines or books and the names of some of the people who wrote the information of how and why these presidents might have black blood, only come from europeans. j.a. rogers is giving you the white peoples feelings about these ex-presidents. thats a good tool. whites will only listen and believe other whites. so when they argue about whether or not these presidents were in some part "negroid" they only fight and argue amongst themselves. for another example i always say, thank god for white men like diodorus,socrates,plato,aristotle, all were white men who lived in the ancient world. they lived before there was a such thing as racism. they wrote what they saw. they saw egytians and described them all as "negroid" or black. (do your own investigative work.)its not an argument with blacks because we know what our ancestors were its in our blood,instinct to know,soul,and its just so obvious. thanks to the ancient white man who wrote the truth. so much of our past in africa has been erased. and if it were not for some of these white men from an error of no racism, we would not know a lot of the ethnic characteristics of our ancient ancestors in africa as well as the environs around africa. to finish, like i said this little book is very informative. this book will only point you to more definitive information about the subject and im sure it will be in a bigger book. More Reviews