Invisible History: Growing Up Colored in Cape Charles, Virginia

by Metty Vargas Pellicer

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The book is a memoir about growing up Black in Cape Charles, Virginia on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake. It details the origin of the town as a railroad terminus and connecting to ferry barges across the Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk, through its golden age in the Jim Crow South and its decline with the ascendancy of automobiles and the building of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Its rise again as a tourist destination in the past decade and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1647187249

ISBN13:9781647187248

Release Date:October 2020

Publisher:Booklocker.com

Length:178 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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