Evelia Jones

Evelia Jones is a direct descendant of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. Before retiring, she was a teacher in Los Angeles public schools for 34 years. Jones wrote this piece with Harvey Wasserman, a historian whose forthcoming book, “Life & Death Spiral of U.S. History,” will be published in April.

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It’s time to recognize Sally Hemings as a first lady of the United States

It is now widely understood that my ancestor Sally Hemings, an enslaved black woman, was the intimate companion of Thomas Jefferson for nearly four decades. Monticello, the Virginia plantation operated as a museum by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, acknowledged as much with a new exhibit…

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