Can someone name me prominent white Americans who discovered they have black genealogic Ancestry?

Question

Am not looking for example like entworth Earl Miller III

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Looking for people who have ancestor than can be traced trough slavery days.

Answer 1

I heard that Dinah Shore did, but don't know it for a fact.

Answer 2

The actress Carol Channing learned as an adult that her father had African-American ancestry.

Answer 3

Genealogically, 100% of the world's population has it's roots in black Africa, nowadays it just shows more in some people than others.

Answer 4

most white people and I do mean good people not just bad people, will not even look to see if there is black geneology in their ancestry.  

It isn't important where you come from, it is important who you are and if you are a good person, who cares what color your family was.

Answer 5

The descendants of Thomas Jefferson learned that he had an affair with Sally Hemming, a black woman, and had another family with her, resulting in many other descendants.  It's a very interesting story, not quite what you asked for, but interesting, nonetheless.  Do some research on Louisiana politicians.  New Orleans' society men, and to a lesser extent, Baton Rouge's, were notorious for "keeping" women and families in addition to their white families.  Sometimes, children of these interracial relationships would be born so light in skin tone that they could "pass" into white society.  Several prominent Louisiana families have recently discovered their "roots", so to speak.  You may have heard of the book ONE DROP: MY FATHER'S HIDDEN LIFE by Bliss Broyard, which chronicles the life of Anatole Broyard, acclaimed NY Times critic, who led his life as a white man.  Upon his death, his daughter learned he was actually from a black New Orleans family, and he passed for white.  It's a marvelous book.

Answer 6

Genealogy DNA is indicating that everyone's DNA goes back to Africa, even Scandinavians.  Actually, many of  those involved in the genealogy DNA work  feels we probably all came from one set of parents 100,000 years ago in Africa.

Our differences, they state, are due to mutations.  All of our ancestors were nomads at one time.  It use to be thought that the reason different types of people were in different parts of the world was due to natural selection.  Now, it is believed that as mutations took place or didn't take place, certain types of people couldn't survive in certain areas and died out.

Example: The sun is rich in Vitamin D.  It has been found that the miniumum amount of Vitamin D that a black African should have is the maximum amount of Vitamin D someone of northern European extraction should have.  Today, it is not quite a problem.  People with lighter pigmentation are aware of the danger of too much sunlight and we have better housing and protective clothing as well as sun screen.  At the same time, there are vitamin supplments for people of African ancestry.

Actually, if you talk with your black coworkers, etc you will find what they take seems to be enormous amount of vitamin D unless they are out in the sun a lot.