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The author presents a fascinating look into the life, work, and legacy of theblack suffragist Adella Hunt Logan.

When William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was a dazzling Washington social event that joined an Oberlin-educated diplomat's daughter and a Wall Street veteran who could trace his lineage to Jamestown. Their union took place in a world of refinement and privilege, but both William and Ida had mixed-race backgrounds, and their country therefore placed severe restrictions on their lives because at th...

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Written as a "reclamation" of long-ignored substratum of our society, Ambiguous Lives is more than the story of one family -- it is a well-researched and fascinating profile of America, its race and gender relations, and its complex cultural weave.-- 1992 Myers Center Outstanding Book on Human Rights

This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both in slavery and in freedom.Beginning with John Robert Bond, who emigrated from England to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War and married a recently freed slave, Alexander shows three generat...