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Blacks in cages to demonstrate evolution.Two pages (this and below) from a Time-Life book The Epic of Man (1961) picturing human evolutionary ancestors as dark-skinned individuals. Note that the more “evolved” human is portrayed with lighter skin, and the apes and Negroes with dark skin. This was in 1961. Biased portrayals like this fed the racism of the Jim Crow era, which is still within the living memory of some African-American families.References
Blacks in cages to demonstrate evolution.
Two pages (this and below) from a Time-Life book The Epic of Man (1961) picturing human evolutionary ancestors as dark-skinned individuals.
Note that the more “evolved” human is portrayed with lighter skin, and the apes and Negroes with dark skin. This was in 1961. Biased portrayals like this fed the racism of the Jim Crow era, which is still within the living memory of some African-American families.
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