Coming of Age in Mississippi

Author: Anne Moody List Price: $16.00 You save: USD 9.28 (58%) Buy new: $6.72 Buy used: $5.35 Avg.Rating: ( reviews) Sales rank: 5277 Qty: 142 in stock Media: Edition: Reading Level: Pages: 432 Number Of Items: Shipping Weight (lbs): 70 Dimensions (in): 520 x 820 x 100 ISBN: 0385337817 EAN: 9780385337816 ASIN: 0385337817 Publication Date: 2004-02-03 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

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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.