Haverhill community leader Kalister Green-Byrd has added another credential to her long list of achievements: author. After more than 60 years of community service, the nonagenarian has written a memoir about her upbringing in segregated Alabama and adult life as an activist in, “Overcoming the Odds.”
A book release celebration is planned for Saturday, July 19, from 1-3 p.m., at Riverside Church, 278 Groveland St., Haverhill. Attendees can meet and have their books signed by the author. Haverhill residents might know Green-Byrd from her place of honor in the lower left corner of the Essex Street Gateway Mural. She earned this place through her activism since she first moved to Haverhill in the 1960s.