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Sources:

1. Here's What's Become Of A Historic All-Black Town In The Mississippi Delta
2. Schools for a Minority
3. Plantation Schools: A History of Rural Black One-Room Schools in the Mid-South and the Mississippi Delta from Reconstruction to 1968
4. How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery
5. The Bible in Song: Reclaiming African American Spirituals

Interested in learning more about passing? Check out my recommendations:

Each novel and short story recommended is very dear to me, and is essential to understanding the precarious nature of white passing in America. I specifically think Coogler referenced Passing by Nella Larsen and Imitation of Life.

1. Passing by Nella Larsen - the pinnacle of passing literature, it tells the tale of two childhood friends, who reconnect as adults. One is white passing, one lives as Black. It's the best for a reason.
2. Imitation of Life by Fannie Hurst - A white passing daughter and the painful, fraught rejection of her Black mother. Check out the movie!
3. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett - identical twins in born in an all-Black (extremely light-skinned town) take two different paths.
4. Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin - Slave owners grapple with the truth of their beloved baby.