The Five Negro Presidents: According to what White People Said They Were

by J. A. Rogers

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Historian Joel Augustus Rogers provides his evidence that there have been nineteenth- and twentieth-century presidents of the United States who had partial black ancestry, including Harding, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln.

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doowatt34 107 reviews

Although I love all works by J. A. this one may be too speculative and without the necessary research and accuracy done that has come to define his work. The only prez that has been proven to be truely and authentically black is president warren g harding whose life and times was recently updated by marsha stewart in Death by Blackness. However it is interesting to read anyway....

Apr 27, 2008

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