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Coming of Age in Mississippi
Coming of Age in Mississippi Anne Moody

Questions:
1. What did the murder of Samuel O’Quinn do to Anne Moody?
2. What were the causes of Anne Moody’s relationship with her mother changing when she went to college at Tougaloo?
3. During the movement, why was organizing in Canton, Mississippi so much more difficult than in Jackson, Mississippi?

Introduction Coming of Age in Mississippi is an autobiographical book written by Anne Moody. The book entails the struggles throughout an African American Childs’ life from four-years-old through womanhood in the South and the role that race and racism played in America during that time. It helps one to become aware of life in the South before and during the Civil Rights Movement while showing the triumphs and the enduring problems that came out of the Civil Rights Movement. The book is divided into four sections: Childhood, High School, College, and The Movement.
Childhood
The book began in a child’s point of view, perfectly told, of growing up in rural Mississippi in the 1940s. She described the landscape, the people, and her own emotions with perfect clarity. While showing racism from the perspective of a child, she included her parents’ divorce following the constant moving of her family due to the fact that her mother struggled to feed the family on her own. Essie Mae experienced the repercussions of The Jim Crow Law at an early age. The book discussed the competition and tensions within the black community, the black churches, religion, and folk medicines. She began school and was a very good student, spirited and meticulous. Furthermore she was a hard worker outside the home as a domestic cleaner. Before she was even in middle school, Essie Mae got her first job working for a white lady. She swept her porches in exchange for two gallons of clabbered milk and seventy-five cents a week. This was the part of the book where she showed life through the eyes of “the help.” In that she

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