Coming of Age in Mississippi
by Anne Moody
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Author: Anne MoodyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-02-03
ISBN: 0385337817
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Delta
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Book Review: The bravery of one young woman
Summary: 5 Stars
"Coming of Age In Mississippi" is an autobiography written by Anne Moody in 1968. Moody, black and born in 1940 in Mississippi, wrote this book at a time in history that Jim Crow laws were still in effect; segregation was in full force; lynchings of blacks were still happening; and the Ku Klux Klan was very active.
How does a young girl find the fortitude within herself to become the civil rights activist that she became and THEN have the extreme courage to write about her life -in a time when it could have very well meant the death of her or members of her family?
This was an eye-opening book to me. It was written clearly, concisely, giving me a bird's eye view and insight into a time in history that had seemed very distant to me before. I learned so many new things from it - about black AND white life during those turbulent, violence filled days. I applaud Anne Moody for writing this book. I understand she does not give interviews any more, which is too bad. I wish I knew how the last half of her life turned out.
This book was recommended to me after I read The Help by Kathryn Stockett. It was suggested that it might give me a much clearer look at what race relations were really like during those difficult times. I have to agree.
Summary of Coming of Age in Mississippi
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. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till?s lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. 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.An 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. 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.
A 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.
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