PHOTOGRAPHS OF JEAN TOOMER


The first photo below has resulted in electronic mail correspondences questioning Jean Toomer's racial origins. Here is his self-description in 1922:

Racially, I seem to have (who knows for sure) seven blood mixtures: French, Dutch, Welsh, Negro, German, Jewish, and Indian. One half of my family is definitely colored.... And, I alone, as far as I know, have striven for a spiritual fusion analogous to the fact of racial intermingling.

Photos below

Toomer, 1923
Toomer and Margery, 1932
grandfather Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback

 

Toomer, 1923
Jean Toomer photo1

 

Toomer and Margery, 1932

 

grandfather Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback



Note two more photos of Toomer and his family are planned for this page.

 

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