E. Delores Johnson Speaking at Annual Meeting

N/A, Westford MA

17 November, 2021

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The Friends of the J. V. Fletcher Library Inc. will be holding its virtual annual meeting on Wednesday, November 17 at 7 p.m. Register at, and a Zoom invitation with log in instructions will be sent for registered guests shortly before the program date. A brief business meeting of Friends members will precede the program. Featured speaker is author E. Delores Johnson, Dolores was born in Buffalo, NY and earned degrees from Howard University and Harvard Graduate School of Business. After a career in tech, she took an MFA equivalent course to learn creative writing. Johnson is a published essayist focused on inter-racialism. In Say I’m Dead, Johnson writes about the mixed-race experience in America, focused on black-white unions and inspired by her family’s experiences. In 1942 her black father and white mother fled Indiana’s Klan and anti-miscegenation laws to legally marry in New York, 24 years before the Supreme Court made mixed-race marriage legal. Say I’m Dead is a memoir of secrets, separation, and transformation, chronicling four generations who overturned forbidden race-mixing norms amid America’s persistent bigotry. The Friends of the J. V. Fletcher Library Inc. help the library serve the community. The Friends support the library through advocacy, volunteer service, and fundraising in order to enhance resources, facilities and service.