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Genre/Form: | Biographies Case studies History Biography |
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Named Person: | Clarence King; Ada King; Clarence King; Ada King; Clarence King; Clarence King; Ada King |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Martha A Sandweiss |
ISBN: | 9780143116868 014311686X 9781594202001 1594202001 |
OCLC Number: | 567688023 |
Awards: | Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) 2009 |
Description: | 370 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | pt. 1. Clarence King and Ada Copeland -- pt. 2. James and Ada Todd -- pt. 3. Ada King. |
Responsibility: | Martha A. Sandweiss. |
More information: |
Abstract:
Traces the secret double life of a nineteenth-century scientist and surveyor of the post-Civil War American West, revealing how he was able to cross color lines and live a second life with an African-American wife and five multi-racial children.
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- King, Clarence, -- 1842-1901.
- King, Ada, -- 1860-1964.
- King, Clarence, -- 1842-1901 -- Marriage.
- African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies.
- Passing (Identity) -- United States -- Case studies.
- Married people -- United States -- Case studies.
- Deception -- United States -- Case studies.
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
- African American women -- Biography.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
- African American women.
- African Americans -- Race identity.
- Deception.
- Marriage.
- Married people.
- Passing (Identity)
- Race relations.
- New York (State) -- New York.
- United States.
- Identity (Psychology) -- Case studies.
- Deception -- Case studies.
- United States -- Race relations -- History.