By Victor Trammell Photo credits: wildpixel via Getty Images/iStockphoto In 1565, both St. Augustine, Florida, and the One-Drop Rule (ODR) were founded. From an American phrase, the one-drop rule developed into a legal term used to separate white people from everyone else. It claims that anybody having even the slightest or most minor proof of […]
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