Location: McKinley
Date: February 16, 2019
Type: Authors/Speakers
When
We Were Colored, by
Eva Rutland, tells the story of one family’s experience with integration in
post-World War II Sacramento. When a woman moves to California from the south
with her husband and children, the family must confront with it’s like to be
the first black household on the block, the only black children at school and
how to continue to love those with different ideologies. Ginger Rutland has
written a play based on her mother’s book that will have its premiere at the
Sacramento Theater Company on March 20. Join Ginger for a special reading and
discussion of the book and the play.