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Obama may be the first black Constitutional president but do you know who the first actual black president was?

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  • Tom C
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    N word Jim from Huckleberry Finn?

  • Tom K
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I trust you'll provide the answer because I can't wait to hear it.

    Ok, you've piqued my curiosity and I found the following:

    According to J.A. Rogers, there are five, Thomas Jefferson, Calvin Coolidge, Andrew Jackson, Warren G. Harding, and Abraham Lincoln, as chronicled in his book Five ***** Presidents. Dr. Leroy Vaughn, makes the same case in his book, Black People and Their Place in World History. Auset Bakhufu adds Dwight Eisenhower to the list in his book, Six Black Presidents: Black Blood : White Masks. It seems that even in their day, there was controversy over the ancestry of these Presidents. Harding did not deny his African ancestry when Republican leaders called on him to deny his "*****" history, he said, "How should I know whether or not one of my ancestors might have jumped the fence." Some today feel that African ancestry does not make these men black. However, the one-drop rule, a historical colloquial term used in the United States during the Jim Crow era, holds that a person with one drop or any trace of sub-Saharan ancestry (however small or invisible) cannot be considered white, and therefore must be considered black. So, by this estimation, America has indeed had black Presidents.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Harding

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No one does for sure, there are many speculations.

    -I believe it's estimated that at least 4 have ancestral Affurkan bloodlines.

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  • 1 decade ago

    ask the Irish, scottish, italian,spanish,african,indian. the list goes on and on.

    Source(s): Colonisation.
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