When We Were Colored, a Mother’s Story Play

Ginger Rutland turned her mother Eva Rutland’s memoir of raising a black family in Sacramento into a play. Funny and mostly upbeat it tells the story of her childhood in Atlanta, early married life at the Tuskegee Air Force Base, where husband Bill Rutland worked in logistics and motherhood in Sacramento. She describes getting lost at McClatchy High School back to school night. It goes from Nov 8th-24th Free to students and teachers – email on www.eva-rutland.com in the description for the book