Danielle

The laws also included provisions to disenfranchise Black men, meaning to deprive them of their right to vote, while racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan terrorized Black communities through violent acts, including public lynchings that were treated as spectacles.

Circling back to how Alice's parents put white on her birth certificate, that just speaks volumes to the lengths they were trying to go to provide any sort of equal opportunity for their daughter. And it reminds me a lot of the episode you did on National Park After Dark a long time ago. So I apologize, I don't remember their exact names. But didn't you do an episode where

Circling back to how Alice's parents put white on her birth certificate, that just speaks volumes to the lengths they were trying to go to provide any sort of equal opportunity for their daughter. And it reminds me a lot of the episode you did on National Park After Dark a long time ago. So I apologize, I don't remember their exact names. But didn't you do an episode where

Circling back to how Alice's parents put white on her birth certificate, that just speaks volumes to the lengths they were trying to go to provide any sort of equal opportunity for their daughter. And it reminds me a lot of the episode you did on National Park After Dark a long time ago. So I apologize, I don't remember their exact names. But didn't you do an episode where

a individual in the South pretended to be or tried to pass off as white to escape to the North.

a individual in the South pretended to be or tried to pass off as white to escape to the North.

a individual in the South pretended to be or tried to pass off as white to escape to the North.

Yeah, that one was a wild story and one that has stuck with me for a while. But it did remind me of this as being like, this is our only hope of trying to make it in this world is passing off as white and it's just it's so disheartening and it also like i said speaks so much to her parents willing to make that concession you know it's giving up part of her her identity you know

Yeah, that one was a wild story and one that has stuck with me for a while. But it did remind me of this as being like, this is our only hope of trying to make it in this world is passing off as white and it's just it's so disheartening and it also like i said speaks so much to her parents willing to make that concession you know it's giving up part of her her identity you know

Yeah, that one was a wild story and one that has stuck with me for a while. But it did remind me of this as being like, this is our only hope of trying to make it in this world is passing off as white and it's just it's so disheartening and it also like i said speaks so much to her parents willing to make that concession you know it's giving up part of her her identity you know

Definitely. Definitely. I actually was just watching a TikTok video that has been making its rounds of just this woman walking through, and I don't remember the exact museum, but she was just walking through a memorial dedicated to Black Americans that were lynched and the reasons for their deaths. And they were all so heartbreakingly simple. Like,

Definitely. Definitely. I actually was just watching a TikTok video that has been making its rounds of just this woman walking through, and I don't remember the exact museum, but she was just walking through a memorial dedicated to Black Americans that were lynched and the reasons for their deaths. And they were all so heartbreakingly simple. Like,

Definitely. Definitely. I actually was just watching a TikTok video that has been making its rounds of just this woman walking through, and I don't remember the exact museum, but she was just walking through a memorial dedicated to Black Americans that were lynched and the reasons for their deaths. And they were all so heartbreakingly simple. Like,

She would say their name, their age, and the reason they were lynched. So it would be like, I don't know, Joe Smith, age 13, publicly lynched for asking a white woman for a sip of water. And she just went on and on and on for, you know, like three minutes of just listing out all of these people who lost their lives during this time for something as simple as that.

She would say their name, their age, and the reason they were lynched. So it would be like, I don't know, Joe Smith, age 13, publicly lynched for asking a white woman for a sip of water. And she just went on and on and on for, you know, like three minutes of just listing out all of these people who lost their lives during this time for something as simple as that.

She would say their name, their age, and the reason they were lynched. So it would be like, I don't know, Joe Smith, age 13, publicly lynched for asking a white woman for a sip of water. And she just went on and on and on for, you know, like three minutes of just listing out all of these people who lost their lives during this time for something as simple as that.

I would definitely imagine if this ever came to light or they were ever prosecuted for this, there would be significant consequences to that.

I would definitely imagine if this ever came to light or they were ever prosecuted for this, there would be significant consequences to that.

I would definitely imagine if this ever came to light or they were ever prosecuted for this, there would be significant consequences to that.

Well, let's fast forward. Alice is now 10, and her family relocated from Seattle to Honolulu, hoping that the warmer weather would help ease her grandfather's arthritis. At this time, Black Americans made up only 0.2% of the population in Hawaii. While living there, Alice attended Central Grammar School, where she was described by her classmates as brilliant.