1. Growing up
... physically and mentally: "The faster the chickens moved, the sicker I got We all ran out suffocating as though we were running from death"(Moody 145). The slaughterhouse was probably the worst conditions possible, but blacks were made to work in these horrible conditions because the pay was good forty ... on most Southern blacks. Because blacks could not vote, they were practically powerless to prevent whites from segregating all aspects of Southern life. Anne Moody explains how hard it was to get blacks to vote: "So far we only had a handful of Negroes to send to the courthouse to ... ...
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