Black, White, Colored
About the Authors:
Lauretta Malloy is critically acclaimed. She has a BSc degree from the New York university established by the Board of Regents and studied psychology and music at Howard University (for five years, and was on the HU Jazz ensemble 1994 album). She is certified in Genealogy Research from the University of Strathclyde and in scriptwriting from The National Film and Television School. Her work with LeeAnet for Rick Owens at Paris Fashion Week (featuring students from Howard University) made headlines worldwide and has been inducted into over ten museums.
LeeAnét Noble played in award-winning theatre productions. She graduated with honors from Howard University ('03, BFA) and is certified in Organizational Behavior from IESE Business School. She teaches history for George Washington University’s MFA classical acting program, courses at Morgan State University and is on senior staff at Shakespeare Theatre Company where she has launched and led numerous collaborations with Howard University.
Book summary:
An absorbing investigation into a little-known historical tragedy—an insurrection at the turn of the twentieth century which upended post-Reconstruction gains made by Black residents in a small North Carolina town.
In the late nineteenth century, Laurinburg, North Carolina, was a beacon of racial calm—a place where Blacks and Whites could live and work together. Black families like the Malloys became landlords, businessmen, and doctors. But that progress was shattered on the eve of Election Day, 1898, when supremacist groups launched a bloody attack, forcing Laurinburg’s Black citizens to flee. This bloody race riot was the only recorded insurrection, stripping middle-class Blacks—who made strides during Reconstruction—of their seats on every electoral board.
Black, White, Colored is the first book to tell the story of the events in Laurinburg and its impact on the town’s Black occupants. Descendants, Lauretta Malloy Noble and LeeAnét Noble, carefully piece together that fateful event and its aftermath, providing compelling details of how their family became one of this Southern town’s richest and most powerful despite slavery, violent white supremacist groups, floods, war, and other roadblocks to success.
Black, White, Colored shines a spotlight on the Laurinburg Insurrection, and elevates it to its rightful place in American history, beside the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and offers insights relevant to our society today.
Additional Howard tie-in Info:
*while tracing the little known yet epic events in the town of Laurinburg, North Carolina the book follows the stories of the Malloys including Lawrence Malloy ('52, BA) , who attended and worked at the University for over thirty years, Loncie Norwood Malloy ('52, BA, '86 MDiv) who also attend and was in the first graduating class of the school of divinity and Rembert Malloy ('39, MD) who worked on the blood bank and at the hospital with Dr. Charles Drew as his lead doctor and celebrates the history of HBCU's and Black Southern Culture.
Find the book here: Black, White, Colored – HarperCollins