A Stronger Kinship : One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith
First edition, first printing. 278pp plus single section of black and white plate illustrations. Quarter bound in cloth over paper-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. In as new condition throughout. In its original dust jacket (very slightly bumped at edges). 8vo. In the mid 19th century, amid a sea of roiling racism in the United States, one community, in Covert, Michigan, decided that there was a different way - in this place schools and churches were integrated, blacks and white intermarried and power and wealth was shared.