A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith

ISBN: 0316110183

Title: A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith

Author: Anna-Lisa Cox

KDL Description:

In this powerful story of 19th-century Covert, blacks and whites lived peacefully and equally with shared political power, integrated schools, and interracial marriage. This remarkable Michigan community became and remains racially integrated.

Amazon Description:

In the heartland of 19th-century America, amid a roaring sea of racism and hatred, a mixed-race community existed where blacks lived as equal citizens. Schools and churches were completely integrated, blacks and whites married, and power and wealth were shared between the races. Starting in the 1860s, the people of Covert, Michigan, broke laws and barriers to attempt what then seemed impossible: to love one’s neighbor as oneself. Far from serving as a beacon, amidst America’s turmoil the story of Covert was forgotten, swept aside by those who found its presence threatening, wiped away by the passage of time. Now, in A Stronger Kinship, Anna-Lisa Cox gives us an astonishing account of the residents of Covert, told through six leading families who lived out this grand experiment in peaceable justice. It presents an America that miraculously once was, and a vision of what our nation might be. Anna-Lisa Cox’s amazing history of Covert is a revelation.