A stronger kinship
Subtitle: one town's extraordinary story of hope and faith
By: Anna-Lisa Cox.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: African Americans -- Michigan -- Covert (Township) -- Attitudes.; Whites -- Michigan -- Covert (Township) -- Attitudes.; Covert (Mich. : Township) -- History -- 19th century.; Covert (Mich. : Township) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Description: Presents the story of the nineteenth-century community of Covert, Michigan, describing how its mixed-race citizens lived in harmony and enjoyed completely integrated schools and churches and shared power and wealth between races.
Table of contents: title: The bleeding heartland; title: The journey: 1860-1866; title: Rights: 1866-1869; title: Citizenship, 1870-1875; title: Equality, 1875-1880; title: Independence: 1880-1884; title: Friendship, 1885-1889; title: Justice: 1890-1896.