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.Ī 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.

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.Ī 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. Wilkinson County, Mississippi was such a place, and it is there that the improbable story of a giant force. She then won an academic scholarship to Tugaloo College in Jackson. She won a basketball scholarship to Natchez Junior College and was in attendance from 1959 through 1961. Chicago Ridge, IL 60415 Books Beads & Bubles 8029 S Octavia Ave. Born Essie Mae Moody on September 15, 1940, near Centreville, Mississippi, Moody was the daughter of poor African-American sharecroppers. Before then, she had 'known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. East Texas Women: Anne Moodys M6 Winery focuses on community. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching.

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.

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