Date: Tuesday, May 17
Location: Joseph-Beth Booksellers
Time: 7 p.m.
The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White, is a multigenerational history of race in American life. It follows three families who started out as African American and crossed the color line and assimilated into white communities at different points in American history.
The book has a strong Kentucky history component. One of the families, the Gibsons, included wealthy landowners who split their time between Lexington/Versailles and their sugar plantations southwest of New Orleans. A second family, the Spencers, were subsistence farmers in the mountains of eastern Kentucky (Clay and Johnson counties).
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