From the book
by
Dr. Leroy Vaughn
MD, MBA, Author, Historian, Humanitarian
(Text below bibliography)
Five Black Presidents Bibliography
Morrow, E. (1963) Black Man in the White House. New York: Coward-McCann Inc.
Whitney, T. (1975) The Descendants of the Presidents. Charlotte, NC: Delmar Printing Co.
Five Black Presidents Text
Joel A. Rogers and Dr. Auset Bakhufu have both written books documenting that at least five former presidents of the United States had Black people among their ancestors. If one considers the fact that European men far outnumbered European women during the founding of this country, and that the rape and impregnation of an African female slave was not considered a crime, it is even more surprising that these two authors could not document Black ancestors among an ever larger number of former presidents. The presidents they name include Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding, and Calvin Coolidge.
The best case for Black ancestry is against
Warren G. Harding, our 29th president from 1921 until 1923. Harding himself never denied his
ancestry. When Republican leaders called
on Harding to deny the "Negro" history, he said, "How should I
know whether or not one of my ancestors might have jumped the fence."
William Chancellor, a White professor of economics and politics at Wooster
College in Ohio, wrote a book on the Harding family genealogy and identified
Black ancestors among both parents of President Harding. Justice Department agents allegedly bought
and destroyed all copies of this book. Chancellor also said that Harding's only
academic credentials included education at Iberia College, which was founded in
order to educate fugitive slaves.
Andrew Jackson was our 7th president from 1829
to 1837. The Virginia Magazine of
History, Volume 29, says that Jackson was the son of a White woman from Ireland
who had intermarried with a Negro. The
magazine also said that his eldest brother had been sold as a slave in
Carolina. Joel Rogers says that Andrew
Jackson Sr. died long before President Andrew Jackson Jr. was born. He says the
president's mother then went to live on the Crawford farm where there were
Negro slaves and that one of these men was Andrew Jr.'s father. Another account of the "brother sold
into slavery” story can be found in David Coyle's book entitled "Ordeal of
the Presidency" (1960).
Thomas Jefferson was our 3rd
president from 1801 to 1809. The chief
attack on Jefferson was in a book written by Thomas Hazard in 1867 called
"The Johnny Cake Papers."
Hazard interviewed Paris Gardiner, who said he was present during the
1796 presidential campaign, when one speaker states that Thomas Jefferson was
“a mean-spirited son of a half-breed Indian squaw and a Virginia mulatto
father.” In his book entitled "The
Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson," Samuel Sloan wrote that Jefferson
destroyed all of the papers, portraits, and personal effects of his mother,
Jane Randolph Jefferson, when she died on March 31, 1776. He even wrote letters to every person who had
ever received a letter from his mother, asking them to return that letter. Sloan says, "There is something strange
and even psychopathic about the lengths to which Thomas Jefferson went to
destroy all remembrances of his mother, while saving over 18,000 copies of his
own letters and other documents for posterity." One must ask, "What is it he was trying
to hide?"
Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president from
1861 to 1865. J. A. Rogers quotes
Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, as saying that Abraham Lincoln was the
illegitimate son of an African man.
William Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, said that Lincoln had very dark
skin and coarse hair and that his mother was from an Ethiopian tribe. In Herndon's book entitled "The Hidden
Lincoln" he says that Thomas Lincoln could not have been Abraham Lincoln's
father because he was sterile from childhood mumps and was later
castrated. Lincoln's presidential
opponents made cartoon drawings depicting him as a Negro and nicknamed him
“Abraham Africanus the First."
Calvin Coolidge was our 30th president, and he
succeeded Warren Harding. He proudly
admitted that his mother was dark because of mixed Indian ancestry. However, Dr. Bakhufu says that by 1800 the
New England Indian was hardly any longer pure Indian, because they had mixed so
often with Blacks. Calvin Coolidge's
mother's maiden name was "Moor."
In Europe the name "Moor" was given to all Black people just
as the name Negro was used in America.
All of the presidents mentioned were able to
pass for White and never acknowledged their Black ancestry. Millions of other children who were
descendants of former slaves have also been able to pass for White. American society has had so much interracial
mixing that books such as “The Bell Curve”, discussing IQ evaluations based
solely on race, are totally unrealistic.
