Renaissance Society's Summer Series - Playwright and Author Ginger Rutland

Playwright and author Ginger Rutland on upcoming play, When We Were Colored

Ginger Rutland will present her mother, Eva Rutland's memoir, When We Were Colored, A Mother's Story. It is the story of a well- educated, middle-class black woman born and raised in Atlanta before the Second World War who moves to California after the war with her husband and four young children. It is an inside look at an ordinary black family at an extraordinary time in America. as segregation and overt discrimination give way to a still imperfect but more just America. Ginger Rutland has adapted her mother's book into a play that will be staged at The Guild Theater in Oak Park in November.

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