Tag: Susie Guillory Phipps

  • I see similarities between Elizabeth Warren’s situation and that of many black people.

  • Louisiana Repeals Black Blood Law The New York Times 1983-07-06 Frances Frank Marcus, Special to the New York Times NEW ORLEANS, July 5—  Gov. David C. Treen today signed legislation repealing a Louisiana statute that established a mathematical formula to determine if a person was black. The law establishing the formula, passed by state legislators…

  • What Makes you Black? Ebony Magazine Volume 38, Number 3 (January 1983) pages 115-118 Vague definition of race is the basis for court battles Imagine going to get a passport so you and your spouse can take a vacation in South America. Its all a formality, you reason; people just want to make sure you’re…

  • Of Susie Guillory Phipps and Chief Redbone: The Mutability of Race Newhouse News Service 1992-07-09 Jonathan Tilove Black is black and white is white, but what about Susie Guillory Phipps? Phipps looks white. She always thought she was white. So did her first and second husbands. Until, at the age of 43, she discovered she…