Eva Rutland
Eva Rutland (January 15, 1917 – March 12, 2012) was an author of more than 20 romance novels. She was the author ''When We Were Colored: A Mother’s Story'' and, ''No Crystal Stair'' and is the winner of the 2000 Golden Pen Award for Lifetime Achievement. Early life Born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1917, Rutland is the granddaughter of a former slave who sent all of his children through college. Rutland's mother was a school teacher; her father a pharmacist. She attended segregated schools her entire life and graduated from Spelman College in 1937. She married Bill Rutland, a civilian with the Tuskegee Airmen. The Air Force moved Bill Rutland to Ohio, then Sacramento, California. He and Eva built a home, made new friends and raised four children. Author Eva Rutland published her first memoir in 1964 (''The Trouble With Being Mama: A Negro Mother on the Anxieties and Joys of Bringing Up a Family''). The book, updated and republished in 2007 as ''When We Were Colored: A Motherâ ...
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Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 living within the city limits, it is the eighth most populous city in the Southeast and 38th most populous city in the United States according to the 2020 U.S. census. It is the core of the much larger Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to more than 6.1 million people, making it the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Situated among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains at an elevation of just over above sea level, it features unique topography that includes rolling hills, lush greenery, and the most dense urban tree coverage of any major city in the United States. Atlanta was originally founded as the terminus of a major state-sponsored railroad, but it soon became the convergence point among several rai ...
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