For the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project. Longtime resident of Cisco, Texas. Memories of education in Cisco’s all-black, one-room Smithville Elementary School that included grades 1-6; bussing to town of Eastland for education through eighth grade; pregnancy and marriage to Bill Collins; decision to move to Arizona, then back to Cisco; work at Boss Glove Factory; earning of GED; decision to enter beauty school, then Cisco Junior College to earn degree as Licensed Vocational Nurse; social life among blacks in Cisco, especially church activities; experiences with racial discrimination; phenomenon of “passing” among blacks in Cisco and elsewhere; experiences at “Negro Achievement Day” at the Texas State Fair in Dallas; children’s experiences in public schools during desegregation.