Coming of Age in Mississippi

Coming of Age in Mississippi is a narrated autobiography of the African-American woman Anne Moody. Moody was extremely poor and grew up in poverty. Moody had been significantly involved in the struggles for equality and fair justice to the people. Moody was active in nonviolent struggles but often faced with impossible situations. Her autobiography guides through her life journey beginning with her at the age of four all the way through to her adult years and the positive involvement she had towards the Civil Rights Movement.

Anne Moody grew up in poor circumstances and later fought for the justice. Moody was born in Mississippi in 1940. She was the oldest child of her parents and learned at the precise initial stage about the difficulties of life. Her parents ended up in divorce when she was little. Moody moved with her mother into a small town of Centreville.

From early childhood, she contributed her income for the living of her family. When Anne received a scholarship for her college, she was happy as she could be able to escape from Centreville. She was mainly shocked by the killings of black citizens that had been going on again and again. At college, she discovered the CORE activist groups. She quickly became one of the most active members and fought for African-Americans right to vote (Bloom, 110).

Moody faced a horrible time while she was in the job from a chicken factory, to the picking of cotton in the field. Moody found task certainly humiliating, being the former slave who harvests so much cotton just to earn a little amount of money. Moody had terrible days of slavery. Moody's family lived in such poor conditions, all the older black people were so intimidated that seemed almost impossible to make a proper move towards ...