Crossing the River Ohio

A coming of age story of a young, colored girl growing up during the sixties in Midwestern America.

"Crossing the River Ohio" takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster ride from the Jim Crow South in the fifties to a small steel town in Ohio through the late sixties, to Kent State University in the early seventies to relive the tragic shootings.

Hazel Clayton Harrison was born in rural Georgia and raised in Ohio. In her memoir, "Crossing the River Ohio", she writes about her growing pains as she tries to overcome the barriers of sex and race in small town Ohio during the turbulence of the Civil Rights era. She is the author of "Winter in L.A., and "The Story of Christmas Tree Lane".