aired the week of September 26, 2011

Passing Strange: a Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line by Martha A. Sandweiss is the true story of Clarence King the first director of the U.S. Geological Survey and his African American wife Ada Copeland. His family and friends knew nothing of her and she believed her husband was a black Pullman porter named James Todd. Read about this incredible deception.