Annie Moody's Life Was Never Easy For Anyone Of Color

Life was never easy for a colored person in the south. Racism was a big problem for anyone of color because they were looked at to be inferior and worthless. Being a product of the segregation life especially in Mississippi, shaped Annie Moody. The person she became was a strong activist because of her life starting from a child and being innocent, to growing up and being exposed to reality, all shaped her to obtain a voice and of mind her own in a world that tried to confine her. Racism is never easy to deal with but harder to live through when one does not fully understand what and why are bad things going on around them. For Annie Moody to live a segregated life but not yet understand it, was only the beginning of her journey to become
Anne moody did not know hate instead was innocent. She was shielded from the truth of Mississippi and how African Americans were seen. Her innocence leads her to play with the white kids who lived near her, they all saw no color and enjoyed each others company by playing on the bikes and skates, not worrying about race and falling into the lie that one color was better than the other. Anywhere Annie went she never understood that whites did not like Black people. Even at public places such like the movies, Annie simply saw her friends and tried to go into the white section of the movie theater. It was not an issue until her mother made it an issue. She knew the racial truth and made it known to Annie that she could not be in the white section with her little friends. That day she had a glimpse of segregation and the idea that whites were viewed as better but she still did not completely understand why, but knew that it was supposed to be like that in that time. “I now realized that not only were they better than me because they were white, but everything they owned and everything connected with them was better than what was available to me” (34 moody). Evaluating the life around her and how she lived exposed her to see reality for how it was for her. Her being naive was fading away because she finally experienced the truth to the world she lived
Annie was now independent because she was not living at home, she was free to do as she pleased. With all the freedom she still understood that there was still alot of racism but she tried for change. At the college she first joined the SNCC which tried to help the negro people to vote. The people were scared to vote because they knew they could risk being fired from their jobs if they tried to register to vote, so they avoided Annie and the organization all together. Not long after Annie joined the Tougaloo chapter of the NAACP. Hearing about the it for so long since she was a child, it was something she wanted to be a part of as she got older. “The NAACP investigated and publicized lynching, condemned the segregation of federal offices, and organized protests against the movie The Birth of a Nation” (692 Schaller). To join the organization was dangerous because of the harm they would receive from white people. Events such like sit ins were not uncommon during a movement or if people were trying to make a peaceful statement, real danger only came when the white people tried to fight against them. “They believed so much in the segregated Southern way of life, they would kill to preserve it” (290 Moody). Racism still never changed during her time in college or while be a part of the NAACP but she still tried. With many dangerous risks that would happen