Books by Eva
When We Were Colored: A Mother's Story
WHEN WE WERE COLORED chronicles the lives of an ordinary yet extraordinary "colored" family as they move from segregation to integration during the turbulent civil rights era of the 1950s and 60s.
Beyond the lunch counter sit-ins, the freedom rides and church bombings, black Americans went about their day to day lives with a fearful but quiet determination, moving into newly integrated schools, neighborhoods and work places. Veteran novelist Eva Rutland tells their true story from her special vantage point of "colored" wife and mother who lived it.
Achingly poignant at times, funny at others, always down to earth, it is the story of a transformative age, as relevant today as it was "When We Were Colored..."
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