For Daughters of the American Revolution, a New Chapter
Olivia Cousins can trace her family in the United States to a soldier who joined the rebelling colonists when he was just 17. But when a friend suggested she join the Daughters of the American Revolution, an organization whose members can prove they are related to someone who aided the rebels in 1776, Dr. Cousins nearly laughed.Dr. Cousins is black. And the D.A.R., as it is commonly called, is a historically white organization with a record of excluding blacks so ugly that Eleanor Roosevelt renounced her membership in protest.
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I'm sorry but I do not believe that the organization excluded colored people.
The by-laws state that anyone who can prove memberbship.........
Where this story began is very confusing, but leave it to Eleanor Roosevelt to come up with a story like that, she was a little contrary, not to mention paranoid about many subjects. I don't think any colored person even tried to write a genealogy back in ER's day.