Preceden

The Color of Water

Events

Rachel shilsky was born

1921

They arrived to the u.s

1923

Ruths sister gladys a.k.a deedee was born

1924

Hunter jordan fled virginia

1927

The shilsky family arrives in suffolk, virginia

1929

Sam runs away to chicago to join to army

1934

Ruth gets pregnant by her boyfriend peter and aborts it

1936

Ruth leaves to new york

1938

Ruth starts working in her aunt marys leather shop in new york

1939

Bubeh died

1941

mameh dies

1942

Ruth coverts to christianity

1942

ruth marries andrew mcbride

1942

Andrew and ruth had there first child

1943

Sam, ruths brothers dies in world war 2

1944

Andrew (dennis ) dies of cancer

1957

Ruth marries hunter jordan

1958

Malcolmx is assasinated

1965

Black power came to light

1966

Hunter jordan dies of a stroke

1972

Ruth starts to drive again

1973

The mcbiride family movies to wilmington, deleware

1974

James gets accepted in orbelin and later attends there

1975

Ruth moves to Germantown, Deleware

1975

The first time that james hears about ruths past

1977

James meets Aubery Rubenstein, the man whose grandfather took over James's grandfather's store in 1942

1982

james quits the Boston Globe and begins to research his family history

1982

ruth graduates from temple university in philadelphia

1986

Doctors find squamos cell cancer in a mole on Ruth's face

1993

uth revisits her past and goes back to Suffolk, Virginia with James, Judy, and Billy

1993

Ruth dies at age 88

2010

( 5 points )

2017