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The Melungeons’ Forbidden Black Ancestry

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  • UPDATED: 8.10.2025
  • status: in progress, high-priority
  • Melungeons
  • identity, Walter Plecker, erasure, African ancestry, multiracial, Appalachia, birth records, racial laws

channel:

NYTN

creator:

Danielle Romero

date:

12.13.2024

length:

11:19

notes:

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description:

This is the story of the Melungeons, a multiracial community in Appalachia, targeted by Walter Plecker in the 1940s. Using birth records and racial laws, Plecker tried to erase their identity.

places:

Appalachia

peoples:

Melungeons

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