She passed. It is said that Eisenhower's mother, Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower was a woman of color. Something about a mysterious maternal grandfather who carried the surname of Link, and there being only two Links families in the Virginia town they originated in ~ a black one and a white one. And something about interviews conducted with elderly area blacks during the 1950's who long remembered the references to Eisenhower's mother as "that black Links gal". But perhaps the evidence that raised the proverbial eyebrow was the 1885 wedding day photograph of the president's parents which many say is all the evidence they need! Ida Link’s mother — Elizabeth Link (Eisenhower’s maternal grandmother) has no known family tree: Why are her parents listed as “unknown”? She’s a genealogical dead end. But no one is a genealogical dead end unless someone wants them to be. She was born in Mount Sidney, Virginia,[1] the only daughter of Elizabeth Ida Juda Link and Simon P. Stover. Here’s the problem: In Mount Sidney to this day there are both black families and white families with the surname “Link”.. Many years ago, a black researcher discovered that Ida’s mother was from the black Links a fact washed away in time by two things: 1. Her mother died when she was five years old. 2. She went to live with a white family after. 3. She moved to Kansas while in her teens. 4. She married a white man.
OP, if you are going to post a story, how about at least offering a bit more information? Surely you have it.
It's funny because I always thought he looked colored so this doesn't surprise me. However, OP could you include more information?
Corey @ I'll Keep You Posted: THE EX-COLOURED MEN! PASSING FANCIES, FANCY PASSES AND PASSING STRANGE PART 2 http://www.africaresource.com/rasta...ck-roots-of-ex-president-dwight-d-eisenhower/ http://nanmynatt.hubpages.com/hub/RACIAL-HERITAGE-OF-SIX-FORMER-PRESIDENTS-IS-QUESTIONED http://www.stewartsynopsis.com/Black_presidents.htm Go here for more info!!!!!! They erased her history so not to bring out the ****** in the woodpile...
I look at that picture and it tells me all I need lol. You can't hide it when it's all in your features.
Not really, b/c prior to 1910 over 90% of AAs were in the south---the rest of the country rarely came across an AA in the a pre-televised/internet media age. Her marrying a German is not surprising since historically, that was a group much more tolerant in American history. Boehner is another example.
KS would have seen black folks, though. The Exodus was in the 1870s-1880s, so he should have had some experience with black folks. He may not have cared because he was from the North, but he had to see something this woman had in common with the black folks that was moving the KS in the thousands. Had to.
Well, apparently that woman managed to pass for not-black. I think she'd pass for a very light-skinned black woman with a heap of non-black ancestry, myself, but I have relatives that are probably her shade (and some even lighter).
Girl, yes. I got called colored by a white girl from Indiana my sophomore year. She said she thought "black" was "dirty" so she used the "nicer word." All my self-control--well, that and the fact that Baylor has made race relations issues they just don't admit to (my freshman year, the cross they stood in the Marina lit on fire during Welcome Week).
She isn't Black or a so-called light-skinned Black person... and your relatives are mixed. Accept it.
I mean damn. Who didn't know she wasn't white? There is some convoluted shit in US History that they are really keeping from the people, because this woman clearly and obviously was BROWN and let's not even mention her hair. They were tripping.
Ok I went on Wiki. It does not say that Ida Link's parents were unknown. It lists both her parents names. The wiki page also lists her maternal grandparents names. So someone could do a genealogy based on that. She also lived with her maternal family not some random white family. It also said that she moved to Kansas when she was 21 not when she was a young child.
One of the articles also mentioned that President Dwight D. Eisenhower's father had African blood as well. It's crazy that some of this info came out because of their opponents trying to use it against them to prevent them from being elected. Back then, everybody knew everybody and I'm sure their ancestry was known, but just kept a secret by those that knew of it. The articles also state that the presidents burned any known info and pics on their black/mixed/passing parents. They even went as far as saying that the parent was of Indian blood.
