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

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.;The bleeding heartland -- The journey: 1860-1866 -- Rights: 1866-1869 -- Citizenship, 1870-1875 -- Equality, 1875-1880 -- Independence: 1880-1884 -- Friendship, 1885-1889 -- Justice: 1890-1896. 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. This is the inspiring, true story of an extraordinary town where blacks and whites lived as equals.