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A 4 page paper which examines the effects of discrimination on Southern blacks during the 1950s as characterized by the lives of Moody’s family and acquaintances, the ways her life changed after leaving home for the city and going onto college, the dangers she confronted while working for racial equality in Mississippi, her later disenchantment with the civil rights movement, and how she viewed African-American attitudes as yet another obstacle to rational progress. No additional sources are used.
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practices - such as discrimination and segregation - would take its place. Nearly one hundred years after the fall of the Confederacy, blacks in the American South were still
riding in the back of buses, being denied entrance into restaurants, restrooms, and movie theaters, and receiving substandard educations. This was the world Anne Moody was born into on
September 15, 1940, and in the small Mississippi town of Centerville, blacks knew their place (behind whites) and feared ever stepping to the forefront. But Essie Mae, as Moody
was known in her childhood, could never understand why these hard-working Americans were content to be regarded by society as separate and unequal. In 1968, Moody wrote an autobiographical
account of the childhood struggles that led to her active involvement in the civil rights movement entitled Coming of Age in Mississippi. The work is divided chronologically into four
sections that discuss her experiences in childhood, high school, college, and the movement, all of which were profoundly influenced by racial prejudice. For the young Essie Mae, discrimination was like
a dirty little secret everyone knew about but no one, including Southern blacks ever talked about. The little girl knew she and her sharecropper parents were treated differently than
the white girls she played with, but she was unable to understand why. When she accompanied her playmates to the neighborhood movie theater, she received a stern scolding from
her mother for not knowing her place. Essie Mae wondered why her place was not with them. They were the same, after all. She proved that to
herself after playing doctor and discovering they all possessed exactly the same body parts. She finally began to realize that white was not only different but somehow better.
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