Evelyn White was born in rural Mississippi, the Delta farm community called Teoc during 1945. The family was Baptist reared by minister father, Edgar White and mother, Dovie D. Brown White. They had escaped a slave Louisiana life in the early 1930s. My father was beaten by a white plantation owner, after a fighting persued, he fled to Mississippi. I am a public school history, special education teacher and adjunct professor in Texas. Also, seventeen sisters and brothers are united with a son, daugther, grandson and granddaughter.