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CAROLINE BOND DAY Caroline Stewar t Bon d Da y was bor n i n Montgomery , Alabama , o n 1 8 November 1889 , the daughter of Moses and Georgia Stewart. Upo n her mother's second marriage, to John Bond, Caroline Stewart took her stepfather 's surname. Sh e attended Atlanta University, from which she received an A.B . i n 1912 . Fo r a yea r sh e taugh t a t Alabam a Agricultura l an d Mechanical College , an d the n spen t tim e workin g fo r th e YWC A i n Montclair, NJ. I n 1916 she entered Radcliffe an d received a second AB. in 1919. Followin g her marriage to Aaron Day in 1920, she spent a year as dean of women at Paul Quinn College in Waco, Texas, and another as head of the English department at Prairie View State College in Texas. I n 1922 she moved to Atlanta University, where she supervised dramatics in addition to teaching English. Durin g 1927-2 8 and 1929-30 she was on leave to do research and take courses at Radcliffe—this tim e in anthropology, mainly under Professor Earnes t A. Hooton. I n 1930 she received her A.M., primarily fo r amassin g an d analyzin g dat a o n race-mixin g i n 34 6 families , including her own. Th e result was published by Harvard's Peabody Museum under the title A Study of Some Negro-White Families in the United States (1932). A brief sampling from this study, which drew praise from W.E.B. Du Bois in a 1935 essay, is reprinted here. Between 1919 and 1933 Day published some essays and short stories, of which the best is the clearly autobiographical tale "The Pink Hat" {Opportunity , December 1926). I n the 1930s she taught at Howard University for two years, and then went into social work—first as a settlement-house supervisor in Washington , D.C. , the n a s genera l secretar y o f th e nearb y Philli s Wheatley YWCA. Neve r in robust health, she retired to Durham, North Carolina, in 1939. Sh e tried a bit of teaching at the North Carolina College for Negroes, but had to give it up. Afte r some years of hypertension and myocarditis, she succumbed to cerebral apoplexy in a Durham hospital on 5 May 1948. 170 Caroline Bond Day Selections fromv 4 Study of Some Negro-White Families in the United States F13 FAGAI N (PLAT E 34) James Fagain was the son of Nancy Knight, mulatto, and Harold Fagain, white, of Scotch and Irish ancestry. Nanc y Knight was an Fl generation, the offspring of a white mother and Negro father. Jame s Fagain was stockil y built , with a ruddy complexion an d ligh t brown, very crinkly hair. Hi s nose was straight with a moderately high bridge and medium wide alae. Hi s lips were fairly thin. He married about 1860 Caroline Reese, 1/4N 3/4W, born in 1846. She was the daughter o f Anna Tucker , an Fl mulatto , the offsprin g of a white father of Englis h ancestry and a Negro mother. Carolin e Reese looke d lik e a light Italian with long, straight, dark brown hair with the suggestion of a low wave. He r nose was medium as to bridge height and width and her lips were thin. From th e marriag e of thes e tw o quadroons ther e resulte d seve n children: John , Lilla, Edward, James, Georgia, Charles, and Florence, the last-named two having died in infancy. O f the five older children, except Edward , al l were marrie d an d ha d childre n i n th e followin g numbers: John , five; Lilla, five; James (wh o married late), one; and Georgia, three children by two husbands, she having been a widow for an interim of eight years. John, Lilla, James, and Florence inherited the dark hair, dark eyes, and creamy complexio n o f th e mother , while Edward , Georgia , an d Charles inherited the light, reddish brown hair, and mixed eyes of the father as well as the ruddy complexion. Althoug h neither father nor mother had blue eyes, one of the children had greenish gray eyes and one hazel . While hai r color wa s almos t equall y divide d i n th e...

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