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comradebillyboy

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3. My 1947 birth certificate from West Virginia

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Sun Oct 19, 2025, 10:00 AM

Oct 19

lists both my parents race as white. It also notes my father was a coal miner and my mother was a house wife. Racial segregation was still going strong back then.

Fortunately for me my father didn't like being a coal miner and got the hell out of WVa.

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OMIGOD! Found copy of my mother's birth certificate from 1911, question 6 was "Legitimate?" [View all] CTyankee Oct 19 OP

"American" instead of "white" means you had enlightened grand parents Bernardo de La Paz Oct 19 #1

I do remember my grandmother HATING Billy Graham. She used to do a mean parody of him preaching. It was fun to watch. CTyankee Oct 19 #4

I'm not sure it was all malign, albeit intrusive. Infants born to mothers with no father indicated were 59% more hlthe2b Oct 19 #2

My 1947 birth certificate from West Virginia comradebillyboy Oct 19 #3

Brown v. Board of Education was decided the year I graduated from high school so I went to legally segregated CTyankee Oct 21 #5