Title of Book: Coming Of Age In Mississippi.
Author: Anne Moody Publication Date: 1968.
Publisher: Dell Publishing.
Source: Dr. Katherine Abbott.
Audience Age/Grade: Young Adult Genre: Strong Female Character.
Curriculum Connections: Civil Rights Movement, Racism, Determination, 1960s History and Survival.
Summary:.
The story introduces the reader to the character of Anne Moody, also known as Essie, her family, and a source of several famous characters such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers. She grew up in a town in Centreville, Mississippi where she developed an intense hatred of "White America" and blacks. She hated whites because they kept the black man down and she hated her own race because they never stood up for themselves. During her early childhood, she barely met the basic needs of food and shelter but it was her discovery of racism after the murder of Emmett Till that caused her to become aware of her need to survive for her family. During her life, she experiences three major events that made her into the remarkable woman she became and each of these would contribute to the already expanding realization by the black community that there was a need for a Civil Rights Movement. The first was the murder of Emmett Till, her cousin who was a visitor from Chicago, Illinois. He made a pass at a white woman in a general store and was unaware of the inappropriateness of this action in a southern state in 1940s. He was later caught by two white men, beaten and left for dead in a ditch. Everyone knew that the white men had committed the crime but no one would dare to speak up for fear that they would be next. This caused Anne to realize that black people had to make a severe change in their personalities or they would continue to live under a blanket of fear forever.
Coming of Age in Mississippi is the autobiography of an African American woman growing up in a racist south in the mid 1900s. ... The book portrays her fight from when she was a small child on a plantation farm until she became a great civil rights leader in Mississippi. ... It shows life in a Mississippi town during the civil rights movement of the 1940's and 1950's. ...
Coming of Age in Mississippi is an autobiographical novel by Anne Moody that chronicles her life as the daughter of sharecroppers in rural Mississippi. ... In Coming of Age in Mississippi, Moody notes that the tone of the skin color of a black person determines their treatment from other blacks and the white community. ... Both autobiographies can be seen as a bildungsroman or coming of age story. ... In Coming of Age in Mississippi, Moody moves from the mindset of an oppressed black in rural Mississippi to an enlightened college student who is working in the Civil Rights Movement and attempti...
Running head: COMING OF AGE Coming of Age in Mississippi Coming of Age in Mississippi Anne Moody grew up in an environment heavily plagued with segregation. ... Despite her mother's pleading her not to, she participated in demonstrations throughout Mississippi. ... While in New Orleans, Anne missed her work in Mississippi and soon went back to continue her work with the SNCC. When Anne returned to Mississippi at the end of this book, she immediately left again to go to Washington. ...
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody is the story of her life as a poor black girl growing into adulthood. ... This is what has been most valuable from reading Coming of Age in Mississippi. ... Moody taught me about what it felt like to be a Black activist risking her life to fight racism, to be exiled from her hometown, to fear and face punishment against her family for her activism and to be a civil rights worker in Mississippi. ...
The Coming of Age in Mississippi, is the autobiography of Anne Moody's life and personal of her experience growing up poor in the south. The story is about a young black woman coming of age and the racism she encountered in the southern town of Centerville, Mississippi. ... The setting of her story is in Mississippi during the 1950's and 1960's. ...
Anne Moody's autobiography, "Coming of Age in Mississippi," delivers certain messages and history that most people, still to this day, tend to ignore. In this autobiography, Moody exposes her fight against racial segregation during the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi. ... In chapter ten, Moody starts high school with a new insight into the life of Negroes in Mississippi. ... Chapter ten and eleven's passage led me to choosing my second song titled, "Mississippi Goddam," by Nina Simone. ... Overall, Coming of Age in Mississippi gives us a better understanding of racial ...
Anne Moody's autobiography, "Coming of Age in Mississippi," delivers certain messages and history that most people, still to this day, tend to ignore. In this autobiography, Moody exposes her fight against racial segregation during the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi. ... In chapter ten, Moody starts high school with a new insight into the life of Negroes in Mississippi. ... Chapter ten and eleven's passage led me to choosing my second song titled, "Mississippi Goddam," by Nina Simone. ... Overall, Coming of Age in Mississippi gives us a better understanding of racial ...
Socialization Agents of Coming of Age in Mississippi The title of Anne Moody's autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi, suggests an ongoing process of socialization. The most important socialization agent would be Anne's family. I believe this because family is the most important factor in a ...
Life in the 1950's and 60's Coming of Age in Mississippi, is basically Anne Moody's autobiography from the beginning of her life, into a family of poor black share-croppers through High School, College, and finally her very active involvement in the Civil Rights movement in the 50's and 60's.This powerful and very informative autobiography from Anne Moody vividly documents the discrimination many African Americans had to face in the South in the 1950s. ... Her passionate fight against racism encounters many obstacles, such as finding her name on a KKK "wanted" list,...
