01411cam a2200289 4500 264279262 TxAuBib 20110308120000.0 070703s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781934178003 1934178004 (OCoLC)151231625 TxAuBib Rutland, Eva. When We Were Colored : A Mother's Story / Eva Rutland. Sacarmento, CA : IWP Publishers, 2007. x, 152 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. First published under the title: The trouble with being a mama. Recounting the civil rights era from the perspective of an African American wife and mother, this memoir travels from growing up in the segregated South before World War II to postwar family life in California. Told with humor and homespun wisdom, this is the story of an ordinary woman living through extraordinary times. Through the bad and the good, this account shows a family and the people they encounter—black and white—stumbling toward a more equal and just America. 20110308. Rutland, Eva. African American women authors Biography. African Americans Civil rights. Child rearing. United States Social conditions 1945- TXHAM