![]() ![]() Intelligent and rebellious, Moody sought out information about the NAACP (from a high school teacher who subsequently was not rehired), and eventually became an active participant in the NAACP and CORE. Her black neighbors mourned their losses, but did nothing to actively protest what was happening to them. Lynchings, rapes, murders, and arson upheld legal segregation. A life of rural poverty (the first time Moody used an indoor toilet was in the home of a white woman) and the passive acceptance of a brutally racist, Jim Crow existence are spelled out in excruciating detail. ![]() At age nine, Moody began to do the same kind of housework as her mother. Her parents eventually separated, and her mother did domestic work for whites, living in housing they provided. The book has a powerful impact.īorn "Essie Mae" in 1940, the oldest of nine children, Anne Moody lived with her parents, who worked as sharecroppers in Centreville, Mississippi. Her technique is anecdotal, with little commentary and no political analysis however, the effect of her stories is cumulative. In her autobiography, Anne Moody takes us from her earliest memories of poverty and racism in the 1940's to her involvement in what she calls "The Movement." She ends her story in 1964, burnt out both emotionally and politically. ![]()
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