From the author ~ I never really expected to become a writer. That changed in May 2015. My father, Harold Ward, at age 94, was in declining health. With only weeks to live he made a request: “Michael, I want you to write the stories of our existence. I want my great grandchildren to know from whence they came.”
In the summer of 1957, the Ward family moved from Brooklyn, New York, to Lee, New Hampshire to escape gang violence in a neighborhood gone bad. It was an era when racial tensions were high, and they became the “Index of Integration” in the district.
Join local author Michael Cameron Ward and experience his books, “A Colored Man in Exeter”, and “The Colored Folks Ain’t Gonna Make it”, both are biographical portraits of life and depict a black man’s experience with race growing up in rural New Hampshire. He will discuss with love and humor, his family's experiences with community, employment and his mother's role in local education and midwifery.
More about Michael Cameron Ward and his books can be found at his website.
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