In this now classic autobiography, she details the sights, smells, and suffering of growing up in a racist society and candidly reveals the soul of the black girl. Through the NAACP and later through CORE and SNCC she has first-hand experience of the demonstrations and sit-ins that were the mainstay of the civil rights movement, and the arrests and jailings, the shotguns, fire hoses, police dogs, billy clubs and deadly force that were used to destroy it.Ī deeply personal story but also a portrait of a turning point in our nation's destiny, this autobiography lets us see history in the making, through the eyes of one of the footsoldiers in the civil rights movement. Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South.

But now there was…the fear of being killed just because I was black.' In that moment was born the passion for freedom and justice that would change her life.Īn all-A student whose dream of going to college is realized when she wins a basketball scholarship, she finally dares to join the NAACP in her junior year. Before then, she had 'known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. The book covers Moody's life from childhood through her mid twenties, including her involvement in the Civil Rights Movementbeginning when she was a student at the historically blackTougaloo College. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Coming of Age in Mississippiis a 1968 memoir by Anne Moodyabout growing up in rural Mississippiin the mid-20th century as an African-Americanwoman.

Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. Anne Moody, in her autobiography Coming of Age in Mississippi, argues that, despite the overwhelming bigotry of the South, the individual black American can. Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody Narrated by Lisa Reneé Pitts Synopsis Expand/Collapse Synopsis Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South.

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