Anne Moody (1940–2015)
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Anne Moody was born Essie Mae Moody on September 15, 1940 in Centreville, Mississippi. As a girl, she cleaned white neighbors' houses to help support her family. She received a bachelor's degree from Tougaloo College in 1964. During these years she was active in civil rights efforts in Mississippi, visa mer working with the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1963, she joined a racially mixed group in a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi. She wrote Coming of Age in Mississippi, which was published in 1968, while living in New York. This non-fiction work described what it was like to grow up black in the era of Jim Crow. Her other book, Mr. Death, is a collection of short stories for young people on the theme of mortality and was published in 1975. She held a series of non-writing jobs, including as a counselor in a New York City antipoverty program, before returning to Mississippi. She died on February 5, 2015 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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- Moody, Essie May (birth name)
- Födelsedag
- 1940-09-15
- Avled
- 2015-02-05
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- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Centreville, Mississippi, USA
- Dödsort
- Gloster, Mississippi, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Centreville, Mississippi, USA
New York, New York, USA
Berlin, Germany - Utbildning
- Tougaloo College (BA ∙ 1964)
Natchez Junior College - Yrken
- civil rights activist
memoirist - Organisationer
- Congress of Racial Equality
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Au… av Anne Moody
An awe-inspiring memoir of a young woman deeply involved with the Civil Rights campaign in some of the most dangerous counties in Mississippi. It's tempting to say that such atrocities happened in the past, until you stop to think that there are states that even now are doing their utmost to erase such stories as this from our schools, and from history. Unless we can own our past, we are assuredly doomed to repeat it.
Really good memoir of a young black girl who lived through the civil rights struggle in Mississippi in the '60s.
Highly recommended memoir about a courageous black woman who grew up in Mississippi and had an active role in the Civil Rights movement.
From the Back Cover, "Written without a trace of sentimentality of apology, this is an unforgettable personal story--the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown up black in Mississippi in the forties and fifties--and to have survived with pride and courage intact."
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