Coming of Age in Mississippi is a memoir written by civil rights activist Anne Moody. It chronicles her childhood and education as a young African American woman growing up in Mississippi amidst poisonous racial and patriarchal tensions. In four sections it details the experiences of her early childhood, her high school and college education, and her later involvement in the emergent Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. The memoir dwells critically on the movement and its attitude toward the women who participated in it.
Coming of Age In Mississippi In Coming of Age in Mississippi you get to experience quite a bit of Anne Moodys life It puts a new light on the Mississippi experience during the early to mid twentieth century There are many different points in Annes life where she experiences racism and segregation Anne Moodys life is an amazing testimony of an African American living in Mississippi From being raised in a family where they dont want to speak of the unfair events to schools where if you speak of t