A story of one familys love and courage in the Jim Crowera Deep South In defiance of his middleclass landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a lightskinned black woman, Edna Howell. It was 1914 in south Alabama. Together they eventually built a house at the dead end of a road in a rural black community. If you came there to do the Richardson family harm, you faced Jim Richardsons rule of justice, represented by a doublebarreled shotgun. And at the end of the road, there was only one way out. The House at the End of the Road The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South examines how one pioneering interracial couple developed a love and a racial identity that carried them defiantly through the Jim Crow years. Through interviews and oral history collected from both sides of the Richardson familys racial divide, as well as archival research, The House at the End of the Road probes into the core of the issue of race in early twentiethcentury America. At the same time, it takes the lessons of the past and places them under the scrutiny of a contemporary world adjusted to DNA ancestry testing, a more flexible sense of racial and ethnic identity, and a tolerance and acceptance of the racial ambiguity that laws prohibiting Jim and Edna Richardsons marriage sought to eliminate. Jim and Edna Richardson were Ralph Eubankss grandparents. Now, decades after interracial marriage became legal, Eubanks takes readers on a...

Binding: Paperback;222 pages; Publisher: University Press of Mississippi; Classification: DN; Weight: 453 g; Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 12

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