The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South

W. Ralph Eubanks presents a powerful memoir about race and identity told through the lives of one American family across three generations.

In 1914, in defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned black woman named Edna Howell. Over more than twenty years of marriage, they formed a strong family and built a house at the end of a winding sandy road in South Alabama, a place where their safety from the hostile world ar...