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A 6 page research paper that discusses Moody's autobiography. The writer argues that Anne's experience during her childhood and the Civil Rights movement offers a means of comprehending black experiences that led to one of the most significant social movement of the century. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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did not understand the unwritten laws that governed black behavior in Ku Klux Klan country because he had the audacity to speak to a white woman. An angry mob murdered
him for his effrontery. He was just fourteen years old. In her autobiography, Anne Moody cites this incident as one of the incidents that galvanized her, and other African Americans,
to join the Civil Rights movement. In her book, Moody relates the experiences from her childhood that shaped her social consciousness as an African American. In so doing, she offers
a means for comprehending black experience that led to one of the most significant social movements of the century. Anne Moody was born on September 15, 1940 in Wilkinson
County, Mississippi to Fred and Elmire Moody (Women Writers of Color). Her father was a sharecropper on a large plantation, which meant that the family was exceedingly poor. The eldest
of nine children, Anne had to help support her siblings by cleaning white womens houses. It was this experience that exposed Anne to white bigotry for the first time.
Although she always had a keen sense of justice, Anne learned the unspoken rules of behavior that governed all blacks during the Jim Crow era of segregation. Anne was
a good student. After graduating from high school, she received a basketball scholarship to Natchez Junior College, which she attended in 1961 (Women Writers of Color). It was while
she was at Natchez that she first became involved in the Civil Rights movement by joining the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Student Non-Violet Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (Women Writers of Color). Moody continued her education by attending Tougaloo College, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in
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