Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family

Other sources included storytelling from other family members as well as the oral tradition gleaned from other Louisianans; photographs and other images; state, federal, and local records; census data; newspapers; letters and other information. "Day" Rone along with many of her family members enjoyed a rich family and community life, apparently without seeking to distance themselves physically or culturally from other blacks or to move outside their African-American communities, even though she could have done so, due to her light skin color that would have identified her to most whites as one of their number. "Day" and her husband John Rone were non-church goers, yet they were tolerant of a diversity of religions at a time when working class and middle class African Americans like themselves were often heavily engaged in church activities within separate black churches, usually Baptist or Methodist.