The play was featured in GoodDay Sacramento https://youtu.be/swEJvHLDuMg?si=A8dbNyqXzDrJR-Ol

A timely and relevant memoir, first published in 1964, tells the story of Eva Rutland’s life “before integration, before affirmative action – when segregation was the norm, discrimination was legally tolerated, and blacks were second-class citizens.”

​”Eva Rutland has done all of us a grand favor- to tell the powerful and poignant story of the courage and love of a black mother in a society that devalues black children”     -Cornel West

The play based on this book is coming to he Guild Theater November 8th-24th 2024. Tickets available https://www.eventbrite.com/o/when-we-were-colored-a-mothers-story-85557921253

Free tickets are available for teachers and students age 10+ send email to wwwcstagemanager@gmail.com with the dates you want and how many tickets (4 tickets max).

Tells the story of Ann Elizabeth Carter, raised in the privileged and comfortable world of Atlanta’s black elite. she’s expected to marry the most eligible bachelor in town. But it’s World War II and she falls in love with and marries, Robert Metcalf, a Tuskegee Airman. He propels her into a new America,  the civil rights struggle, integration, the black power movement and the racially blended families of today.

​”A well-crafted, compelling romance that does not gloss over the realities of prejudice, making for sometimes uncomfortable, but eye-opening, reading.” –Library Journal