African-Americans Making History Long Before Barack Obama Decided to Run for President

When Barack Obama decided to make a bid for the highest office in the United States he was making history to this generations time when in fact there are 5 known presidents who are in fact African-American because of their ancestry. Author J.A. Rogers published a book in 1965 titled The 5 Negro Presidents: According to What White People Said They Were. This was a pamphlet sized book with the image of 29th President Warren G. Harding and his paternal grand-uncle(an African-American) Oliver Harding. Around 1963 U.S. Attorney General Robert Francis Kennedy and New York state senator Jacob K. Javits had been reported to have said that in thirty or forty years that there could well in fact be an African-American in the office of President of the United States. As anything that's already taken places since Harding was in office during the depression and on election day in 1920 people were reading in the papers that Harding was reported to be African-American because his father George Tryon Harding was biracial and his mother Phoebe Dickinson who's history according to Rogers' book was unknown was white.



Most people are surprised to learn that the United States of America has had Presidents and a Vice President of African Descent. From the 17th century through the mid 19th century, the names of five presidents had been loudly proclaimed by Caucasians of those times as being of African ancestry.

The information expressed on this topic was obtained from the writings of author J.A. Rogers. He was one of the most renowned writers on the topic of race mixing in the 20th century and around the world. He has written numerous books on this topic. From Superman to Man, Sex and Race, World's Greatest Men of Color, Nature Knows No Color Line, Five Negro Presidents, Africa's Gift to America, 100 Amazing Fact About The Negro With Complete Proof, etc.

Bear in mind that regardless of what variation of skin hues found among people of African descent, what denotes African ancestry is the possession of 1/16 part African blood. Which if you took your self, the genetic origin of a single African gene originated 4 - 5 generations ago. Meaning you can appear to be Caucasian but still bear children of color.

THOMAS JEFFERSON - He was the son of a half breed Indian squaw and a Virginia Mulatto (half African-half Caucasian) father. In a published paper of that time, "The Johnny-Cake Papers," he was called "A NIGGER." He also fathered mulatto daughters.

ANDREW JACKSON - He was born on a farm in Carolina. His father was a slave on that farm. His oldest brother was sold as a slave in Carolina. His mother was Irish.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN - He was said to have been the illegitimate son of a Negro by a Caucasian women named Nancy Hanks. In his campaign for the presidency, he was often referred to as a Negro and depicted as a Negro. He was called Abram Africanus the first. What gave strength to this statement was that his hair was more Negroid (wool like) that Caucasian (straight). So was his skin color. Of his father he said, "His face was round, his complexion swarthy (dark), hair, black and course, eyes brown. He described himself as having a dark complexion with course black hair and dark eyes. W.H. Herndon, his closest friend and law partner said he had "very dark skin."

WARREN G. HARDING - Shortly before the 1920 election, Americans were amazed to read in the papers that Mr. Harding was a Negro. His father was George Tryon Harding, an obvious mulatto. His mother was Phobe Dickerson, a Caucasian Midwife. Extreme measures were taken by the U.S. Government to suppress this information during that time. His sister was employed in a Negro public school in Washington D.C. She also lived within the Negro community in Washington D.C.

The fifth president was not named in his publication.

General Colin Powell at the height of his popularity in the 1980's, during the Gulf War Campaign, stated that when history tells his story he probably wont be remembered as an African American. He will be remembered for what he did, not for who he was. And so goes the history of the United States. How many people of influence did we read about in our history classes that were of African descent and we didn't know it then or now.

OTHER HISTORICAL FIGURES OF AFRICAN DESCENT

HANNIBAL HAMLIN - He was Vice President to Abraham Lincoln. While a U.S. Senator from Maine, he was often verbally attacked from the floor because of his dark skin. So according to this information the United States has had a sitting President and Vice President of African Descent at the same time. But because when history is recorded, and recorded primarily by Caucasians, color is never mentioned, so it is assumed that people of that stature are always Caucasian.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON - New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1787), major author of the Federalist papers, and first secretary of the Treasury of the United States (1789-95), who was the foremost champion of a strong central government for the new United States. His ancestry has long been disputed. He was born on the Island of Nevis in the West Indies. Native Virgin Islander's have insisted that he was colored. His brother, James (same mother, same father) also migrated to the United States where he was treated as a Negro because of his dark color and hair. He fathered two dark skinned sons.

ALEXANDER PUSHKIN - Russia's greatest poet, was a direct descendant from Abram P. Hannibal, an unmixed Sudanese African. Hannibal had been adopted by Peter the Great of Russia. Hannibal's descendants married into German, Russian, Dutch and other royal families. It was stated during that time that a coal black baby might yet be born in the English royal family.

WINSTON CHURCHILL - His grandmother was of African descent. She was considered 1/4th Negro.

DAVID MICHAEL - Marquis of Milford Haven, cousin to the Queen of England and a direct descendant of Queen Victoria. He had black blood. His mother was the daughter of the Grand Duke Michael of Russia.