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“Coming of Age In Mississippi” by Anne Moody is a memoir. It was first published in 1968. Anne Moody is an African-American. The book focuses on the author’s growing up in rural Mississippi in the mid 20th century.
The book describes the time period from the author’s childhood until her late twenties. It also focuses on Anne Moody’s involvement in the civil rights movement in the United States.
The civil rights movement had begun when Anne Moody was a student at the historically black Tougaloo College. This memoir provides the author’s struggles both against racism among white people and sexism among the other civil rights activists who were taking part in the movement.
Literature Help: Coming of Age In Mississippi
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Chapter One: Introduction
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Chapter Three: Characters
Chapter Four: Complete Summary
Chapter Five: Critical Analysis
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Chapter One: Introduction
Coming of Age In Mississippi
by Anne Moody is a memoir. It was first published in 1968. Anne Moody is an African-American. The book focuses on the author’s growing up in rural Mississippi in the mid 20th century.
The book describes the time period from the author’s childhood until her late twenties. It also focuses on Anne Moody’s involvement in the civil rights movement in the United States.
The civil rights movement had begun when Anne Moody was a student at the historically black Tougaloo College. This memoir provides the author’s struggles both against racism among white people and sexism among the other civil rights activists who were taking part in the movement.
Anne Moody is a well-known figure today. She is popularly known for two things: she had taken part as one of the students demanding service at the famous Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in in Jackson, Mississippi, and the other is her famous autobiography Coming of Age In Mississippi.
Her book Coming of Age In Mississippi
is considered as one of the classic autobiographies of American literature.
Anne Moody, during the civil rights movement, was the direct voice of the most oppressed rural blacks, whereas most of the other black leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and W. E. B. Dubois were middle-class or rich people.
After the end of the Civil War in America, the African-Americans were able to achieve their freedom and they were guaranteed equal rights when the Constitution of the country was amended, but the federal government in the South stopped enforcing the rule of law.
The white in the South began to
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