Invisible History: Growing Up Colored in Cape Charles, Virginia

by Metty Vargas Pellicer

Book Overview

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"