Historian Anna-Lisa Cox will be talking about her book, “A Stronger Kinship: One Town’s Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith,” on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 2:30 p.m. in Wagner College’s Spiro Hall Rm. 2. The public is invited to attend.
Cox’s book tells the story of Covert, Michigan, a rural Midwestern town with a long history of racial integration. Cox, a scholar-in-residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago, describes Covert’s founding in 1860 “as a mixed-race community that defied the social conventions of the time,” writes Vanessa Bush in Booklist, “electing blacks to powerful political positions and providing a haven for economic development for achievers of all races.”
