by Carolyn Bass | Aug 26, 2021 | Fiction Excerpts, Ovations
The young female protagonist in my WIP struggles with the impending divorce of her mother and father. She knows her father is extremely predjudiced against what were called “coloreds” in 1967, but he’s her Daddy and she loves him for all of the good...
by Carolyn Bass | Aug 24, 2021 | Fiction, Fiction Excerpts, Ovations
It’s 1967 and the young protagonist in my WIP gets a visit from her school principal who happens to be black. In those days the polite way of referring to a person of African heritage was to call them “colored.” While this scene is completely...