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Parallel worlds : the remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the enduring (in)significance of melanin / Adele Logan Alexander.

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"When William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was a glittering 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 re...

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Main Author: Alexander, Adele Logan, 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Hunt, William Henry, > 1863-1951.
Hunt, Ida Gibbs, > 1862-1957.
African Americans > Biography.
Married people > United States > Biography.
African American diplomats > Biography.
African American women civil rights workers > Biography.
Hunt, William Henry, > 1863-1951 > Travel.
Hunt, Ida Gibbs, > 1862-1957 > Travel.
African Americans > Race identity > Case studies.
Sex role > United States > Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Wedding album, Washington, D.C., 1904
  • Family portraits
  • The vice president's daughters
  • Mirror of the times : reflections on the lives of M.W. Gibbs
  • Ida Alexander Gibbs's pictures from a well-spent youth
  • "From cabin to consulate" : Billy Hunt's memory book
  • Worlds apart
  • The Madagascar portfolio, 1898-1907 : colonials on the Great Red Island
  • France, 1907-1918 : la Ville Noire and la Guerre Mondiale
  • France, 1918-1927 : pan-Africanism and postwar consular life
  • Snapshots from Guadeloupe, 1927-1929
  • Odysseys through the Portuguese Atlantic, 1929-1931
  • Liberia, 1931-1932 : negative forces, forced labor, forced out
  • Fading images : Washington, D.C., 1932-1957
  • Epilogue: The Gibbs-Hunts' stories and mine.

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