Coming of Age in Mississippi by Ann Moody Essay

people regularly do not receive credit for their daily efforts because individually their actions did not ensue large-scale results but as a collective population they served a major role in the civil rights movement. Anne Moody’s narrative, Coming of Age in Mississippi, details the life of one of these ‘ordinary’ people who, as an African American, experienced daily suppression and despite being neglected of praise, fought to change they way people of color were treated in the south. The hero figure

Ann Moody covers various aspects of her life that culminated in her being involved with the Civil Rights Movements in her book Coming of Age in Mississippi. Moody was born and brought up in very difficult times. As an African American, her early life was deeply turbulent. She was a witness to many atrocities that were committed within the state. Her early childhood experiences helped nurture her to become directly involved in the Civil Rights. Mississippi was of the states that experienced too many

The first main event that I believe led to Anne Moody becoming an activist for Civil Rights was when she was younger, her cousin George Lee was babysitting and he burned down the house in a fit of rage and when Daddy gets home he blames it on Essie Mae (Anne Moody). This foreshadows all of life’s injustices that will be thrown her way. The next time was when she made friends with white neighbors and they decided to go to the movies, Anne couldn’t sit with her friends, she had to sit in the balcony

sentiment, but Moody, more than half a century later, would have approved. She, too, faced a powerful establishment, and as it grew more violent, Moody grew more hateful of white people. She hated them because they hated black people. "But I also hated Negroes," she writes. "I hated them for not standing up and doing something about the murders. In fact, I think I had a stronger resentment toward Negroes for letting the whites kill them than toward the whites." Moody yearned

Coming of Age in Mississippi is an eye-opening testimony to the racism that exemplified what it was like to be an African American living in the south before and after the civil rights movements in the 50's and 60's. African Americans had been given voting and citizen rights, but did not and to a certain degree, still can not enjoy these rights. The southern economy that Anne Moody was born into in the 40's was one that was governed and ruled by a bunch of whites, many of which who very prejudice

were, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark. They ended up being pretty well known explorers for exploring, ‘The frontier.” Sounds intimidating, but it really was. Lewis and Clark actually ended up coming through Kansas and meeting friendly Indians. This expedition to survey the land West of the Mississippi, known as Louisiana Territory, that had been purchased from France in 1803. Lewis, Clark and the rest of their expedition began their journey near St. Louis, Missouri, in May 1804. This group often