... and hate-filled relationship, the relationship between individuals within the black community was often wrought with tension and conflicts. Coming of Age in Mississippi is an autobiographical novel by Anne Moody that chronicles her life as the daughter of sharecroppers in rural Mississippi. The novel follows Annes struggles with poverty and racism and her eventual growth into a black activist at the ... journey into personal independence from the restrictions and limitations placed on blacks and the start of her independent thinking on how to solve racial problems within the Deep South. A...

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... the 60's many feared that the civil rights movement might fall apart or it will fail to achieve its objectives. Amongst them was Anne Moody who, thinking about overcoming the racial barriers, says, " I wonder, I really wonder." (Anne Moody, "Coming of age in Mississippi", Dell publishing 1968). Today, fifty some years down the road from the movements of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and ... ...

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