In 1968, Creola Nanette Page was born to two young black parents living in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Growing up in the first all-black town of Mound Bayou, Ms. James had little exposure to racial discrimination and poverty. Mound Bayou being an all-black town, everyone was pretty much equal. Even if she was not exposed to it daily, she was carefully warned about it. As he grew up, his parents moved to Shaw, Mississippi. It was then that Mrs. James witnessed the full extent of what she had been warned about. Shaw was a predominantly white area. The people who lived there were very mean and rude to the black people who lived there. Schools, shops and residential areas were separated. The now elementary school was the black school and the high school was the white school. She went to the local elementary school until they integrated schools and graduated from Shaw High School, where her mother taught. Witnessing all the bad things that happened at Shaw, she decided she didn't want to stay there for the rest of her life. She then went to attend college at Mississippi Valley State University where she met her husband. As a military wife, she traveled to Europe with her husband and three children. Creola James now lives in Kiln, Mississippi, where she teaches kindergarten at West Hancock Elementary School. At Shaw, Ms. James witnesses racism every day. From ignorant comments and name calling such as the derogatory term "nigger" to white men ganging up on a single black man threatening to kill him and his family. She would also hear stories about racial decimation involving the areas and people around her. She remembers a day when she was around 14 years old. She was in Parchman visiting her grandparents with her mother. At that time...... middle of paper ...... type of meat. She couldn't recognize the guy, but she didn't find anything wrong, so she decided to cook it. It was only after she had finished cooking that she realized that the meat she was about to give her children was not chicken, fish or turkey, but wild rabbit meat. His father sometimes brought home wild meat because the meat in the store was too high or avoided the problems of some ignorant white men hanging around the store. Since the 1960s and 1970s, life has improved for black people. people living in the Mississippi Delta. Some areas may still be too stubborn to change over time, but they are slowly changing. Ms. James is very proud of her hometown. She has come a long way, but she will never forget the past and what she witnessed. Works Cited James, Creola. Personal interview. March 11. 2014.