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The invisible line, a secret history of race in America, Daniel J. Sharfstein

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The invisible line

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Daniel J. Sharfstein

a secret history of race in America

One of the nation's most accomplished historians unravels the stories of three extraordinary families from different eras in American history to represent the complexity of race in America, and to force readers to rethink assumptions about race, racism, and civil rights

Gibson : Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1768 -- Wall : Rockingham, North Carolina, 1838 -- Spencer : Clay County, Kentucky, 1848 -- Gibson : New Haven, Connecticut, 1850-55 -- Spencer : Jordan Gap, Johnson County Kentucky, 1855 -- Wall : Oberlin, Ohio, September 1858 -- Civil War : Wall, Gibson, and Spencer, 1859-63 -- Civil War : Wall and Gibson, 1863-66 -- Gibson : Mississippi, New Orleans, and New York, 1866-68 -- Wall : Washington, D.C., June 14, 1871 -- Spencer : Jordan Gap, Johnson County, Kentucky, 1870s -- Gibson : Washington, D.C., 1878 -- Wall : Washington, D.C. January 21, 1880 -- Gibson : Washington,D.C., New Orleans, and Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1888-92 -- Wall : Washington, D.C., 1890-91 -- Spencer : Jordan Gap, Johnson County, Kentucky, ca. 1900 -- Wall : Washington, D.C., 1909 -- Spencer : Home Creek, Buchanan County, Virginia, 1912 -- Gibson : Paris, 1931-33 -- Wall : Freeport, Long Island, 1946