Word: mulatto
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...animal and artist. He wanted a white woman to love him. And when he obtained pretty Ownie Tremlett for his wife it was only because she could not resist vulgar luxury in the face of frowsy widowhood in Brighton. They soon hated each other bitterly and a weakling mulatto baby was the core of their hate. Lee drank and died. Ownie reverted to a frowsy lodging house and dyed her hair...
Then the tale begins again with the mulatto weakling, David Lee, in whom the soul of a poet grew. His poems won him the love of a deformed little country mouse, Hebe, who painted pathetic pictures, wrote him beautiful letters and cowered from his sight for shame of her crumpled body. He cowered from her sight for shame of his color, and all the more so when she impulsively sent him a picture of her lovely sister, in place of her own likeness. When Hebe discovered David's secret, she loved him notwithstanding. When he discovered hers, his bitterness...
...meetings was held in Carnegie Hall, to which some 2,000 Negroes were admitted at from $1.10 to $2.65 a seat. The speeches were inspirational. Bishop George Alexander McGuire spoke on The Black Man of Sorrows, exhibited pictures of a mulatto Christ crowned with thorns and of a Black Madonna. "If God is your Father, He must be the same color that...
...Daggs, a mulatto, described the work of his fellow graduates in organizing schools and churches. The color will take care of itself in future...