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Depicting African-American children as alligator bait was a common trope in American popular culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. The motif was present in a wide array of media, including newspaper reports, songs, sheet music, and visual art.
By 1968, Americans had adopted about 7,000 "brown babies." [16] Many of the "brown babies" did not learn of their ethnic German ancestry until they reached adulthood. [17] African American newspapers, which had been vocal about equality in the military during the course of the war, took up the cause of the German and English Brown Babies.
The Fultz sisters (born May 23, 1946) were a set of American quadruplets who gained notoriety for being the first identical African American quadruplets on record. They made promotional appearances for Pet Milk in a deal that provided their family land, a house, and a full-time nurse. The sisters were later adopted by the nurse.
The Gaither quintuplets (born 3 August 1983, in Indianapolis, Indiana) were the first surviving African-American quintuplets and were one of only three naturally-conceived American sets in 1983. [47] [48] [49] The Al-Ghamdi quintuplets (born 2 February 1988, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) were the first set to be born in Saudi Arabia. The 5 boys were ...
With the rise of the 1960s civil rights movement and the wider counterculture of the 1960s, there was a dramatic rise in African-American names of various origins. Jean Twenge believes that the shift toward unique Black American baby names is also the result of a trend in America that values individuality over conformity. [5]
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"Children of the plantation" is a euphemism used [by whom?] to refer to people with ancestry tracing back to the time of slavery in the United States in which the offspring was born to black African female slaves (either still in the state of slavery or freed) in the context of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Non-Black men, usually the slave ...
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