Introduction. Revised in 2009, this edition of African American Family Histories and Related Works in the Library of Congress incorporates all the past efforts of Sandra Lawson and Paul Connor, supplemented by the edition of 84 family histories and genealogical handbooks.
well i mite be off base here but unhemmed is those pants that these kids wear with a log chain on them and the butts hanging out or underwear. i had one guy and i said guy in his 30`s arrested for indecent exposure. he is paying a 2,300.00 fine and 140 hours of comunity service.
A friend told me recently that the gang style of baggy pants showing your underwear (called jailin) was originally a prison code signifying that the man wearing them was willing to be, er, the girlfriend of some other man/men. [Collected on the Internet, August 2011].