in murfreesboro, tennessee. he has worked at nine different historic sites, most recently and currently at richmond national data field park. he has written two books and i think we have at least one of them in the for-sale bookstore his most recent one, "the most famous bridal" -- struggle" -- i grabbed the wrong one. what is the most recent one? "to the bitter end," which deals with the surrenders in north carolina. his talk today will be on the forgotten surrenders. since i did my dissertation on florida, i hope you might mention florida once or twice because it was one of the florida regiments that was one of the last surrendered groups late in june. bert dunkerly. [applause] bert: good morning. i want to thank the organizers for having me. i really appreciate the invitation, it is great to be here with so many people interested in the topic. what i would like to do was talk about all of the surrenders, not so much on appomattox, i think you have covered that in the last few days. i want to compare the surre

here the other day and then walks to the best restaurant in a rather conservative town called murfreesboroand demanded lunch and got it. plus all the service in the world and an invitation to return. everybody here seems to think that quite a stunt. larson's letter reveals the type of momentary passing that became commonplace during the jim crow era but it also reveals the fun in the theatrics of passing. convincing performance as required gumption, resourcefulness and no small measure of humor. the sheer joy of getting over in fooling our white folks as langston hughes put it made passing a means of poking fun at a racial system laden with absurdities about racial. e.. walter white a racially ambiguous secretary of the naacp made a practice of putting his blond hair and blue eyes to use in the south during the 1930s to investigate lynching. white's must have laughed nervously when he sat next to a white man on a train to bragged that he had special expertise in identifying blacks who passed as white. taking white hand into his own in his own and pointing at whites cuticles the man explain

in murfreesboro, tennessee. he has worked at nine different historic sites, most recently and currently at richmond national data field park. he has written two books and i