Coming of Age in Mississippi
About this book
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South.
In this now classic autobiography, she details the sights, smells, and suffering of growing up in a racist society and candidly reveals the soul of the black girl who had the courage to challenge it. The result is a touchstone work: an accurate, authoritative portrait of black family life in the rural South and a moving account of a woman's indomitable spirit.
Subjects
- 1000blackgirlbooks
- african american girls
- african americans
- african americans, biography
- african americans, mississippi
- biography
- childhood and youth
- civil rights
- civil rights workers
- coming of age
- correspondence, reminiscences
- history
- juvenile literature
- mississippi, biography
- race relations
- social conditions
- suffrage