Eva Rutland’s, www.evarutland.com, memoir When We Were Colored, a Mother’s Story was originally published in 1964 and provides a contemporary view of the Civil Rights Movement told through the eyes of a middle class black mother. Despite the discrimination she and her family faced, Eva Rutland keeps her story upbeat and funny. In the revised introduction she states that she "was born during the olden days when grass was on the lawn, pot was a cooking utensil and civil rights were for white folks." Eva Rutland is 91 years old and went blind in her fifties but she continues to write and has published more than 20 novels, mostly Harlequin romances. Sacramento Bee editorial writer and former KRON reporter Ginger Rutland will assist her mother by reading sections from the book and presenting a slide show presentation that includes family pictures that date back to the 1860s on the history of black people in the United States.
