Blue Bloods

About the Book

Based on news articles, the book is about intermarriage between blacks and whites. The book is slanted with racial prejudice against intermarriage. The book arouses racial feelings. As an editor, I, Rolland Taylor, a minister, was so angry at the racial prejudice, didn’t want it published because of the racial feelings it would arouse, and threw it in the garbage. Years later, I found another copy of the book in my mother’s things and decided maybe it should be published as an example of feelings during depression days.

About the Author

Fannie Adams was born in 1887, 22 years after the emancipation proclamation. Born in Missouri which was taken in as a slave state in the Missouri Compromise. Started teaching at age 16 with forty kids, grades 1-8, taught high school, built a sod-house and proved up on 160 acres of free land from the government, sold books on horse-back, ran a nursing home, apartment house, and wrote articles for various magazines.