Coming of Age in Mississippi The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South

Name: Coming of Age in Mississippi The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
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ISBN: 9780385337816

ISBN-10: 0385337817

ISBN-13: 9780385337816

Edition: 2004

Authors: Anne Moody

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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. An all-A student whose dream of going to college is realized when she wins a basketball scholarship, she finally dares to join the NAACP in her junior year. Through the NAACP and later through CORE and SNCC she has…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/3/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.21" wide x 7.94" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English