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What was one-drop rule?

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Anonymous

7y ago
Updated: 10/19/2021

In the pre-Civil War era of the US, the "one-drop" rule was a social and legal principle of racial classification that any person with even one ancestor of sub-Saharan-African ancestry is considered black.

By 1910, twenty US states had classified citizens by blood-fraction, most using one-fourth or one-eighth.

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Joanne Skiles

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3y ago

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