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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South
Contributor(s): Moody, Anne (Author)

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ISBN: 0440314887     ISBN-13: 9780440314882
Publisher: Dell
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Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1992
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Annotation: Written without a trace of sentimentality or 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 an fifties -- and to have survived with pride and courage intact.
In this now classic autobiography, she details the sights, smells, and suffering of growing up in a racist society and candidily reveals the soul of a 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 heart.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Dewey: B
LCCN: 00003442
Lexile Measure: 870(Not Available)
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 4.1" W x 6.8" L (0.45 lbs) 432 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Chronological Period - 1950's
- Cultural Region - Deep South
- Cultural Region - Gulf Coast
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region - South
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Geographic Orientation - Mississippi
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
Features: Price on Product
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 157691
Reading Level: 5.5   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 22.0
 
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Publisher Description:
The unforgettable memoir of a woman at the front lines of the civil rights movement--a harrowing account of black life in the rural South and a powerful affirmation of one person's ability to affect change.

"Anne Moody's autobiography is an eloquent, moving testimonial to her courage."--Chicago Tribune

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. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was . . . the fear of being killed just because I was black." In that moment was born the passion for freedom and justice that would change her life.

A straight-A student who realized her dream of going to college when she won a basketball scholarship, she finally dared to join the NAACP in her junior year. Through the NAACP and later through CORE and SNCC, she experienced firsthand the demonstrations and sit-ins that were the mainstay of the civil rights movement--and the arrests and jailings, the shotguns, fire hoses, police dogs, billy clubs, and deadly force that were used to destroy it.

A deeply personal story but also a portrait of a turning point in our nation's destiny, this autobiography lets us see history in the making, through the eyes of one of the footsoldiers in the civil rights movement.

Praise for Coming of Age in Mississippi

"A history of our time, seen from the bottom up, through the eyes of someone who decided for herself that things had to be changed . . . a timely reminder that we cannot now relax."--Senator Edward Kennedy, The New York Times Book Review

"Something is new here . . . rural southern black life begins to speak. It hits the page like a natural force, crude and undeniable and, against all principles of beauty, beautiful."--The Nation

"Engrossing, sensitive, beautiful . . . so candid, so honest, and so touching, as to make it virtually impossible to put down."--San Francisco Sun-Reporter

 
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