Coming Of Age In Mississippi Thesis

Anne Moody in his book ''Coming of age in Mississippi'', isn't sure that the civil rights movement will end up as being a success. She is having a lot of doubts about the future, questioning herself about her sacrifices and the suffering she had to endure as an activist. In 1968, the civil rights movement and the freedom summer are still recent memories and nothing is won. The author wonder, if Mississippi will always be stuck in another time. She had gave so much to the cause that she cannot envision only small slow changes. All those efforts were calling for drastic political and social reforms, in order to shake the racial status quo in the South. This essay will be an attempt at conceptualizing the childhood and familial background of Anne …show more content…
Some of her people weren't taking the abuse of white people anymore, some of them were fighting for a better standard of living. Ironically, she figured that out while working as a scab in a chicken factory. At this moment she isn't an activist yet, even tho she came to resent the abuses, her radicalization isn't at complete. She's not willing to sacrifice everything for the cause of black civil rights. Is time at Tougaloo college will concord with the beginning of her implication in ''The movement'', especially with an NAACP secretary as a roommate.'(rephrase)'' The more I remembered the killings, beatings, and intimidations, the more I worried what might possibly happen to me or my family if I joined the NAACP. But I knew I was going to join, anyway.''(p269) She joint and can be visible at the Woolworth sit-in and numerous other demonstrations in Jackson. This part of her life, show her the strong resistance organized by the white people against the black quest for first class citizenship. Anne was aware of the harsh racist environment around her growing up, but she now see it from a different perspective. Hope is there at last, Medger Evers is described as a second coming of Luther Kings and Mrs.Moody is highly impressed by him. Tugaloo is slowly becoming the epicenter of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, from the freedom riders to speakers like Jackie Robinson …show more content…
In several passages of her book, we can see evidence of mental exhaustion and signs of severe anxiety. Her experience is painful, she is suffering from in investment in the cause. Indeed, she was already estranged from her family, at the time but the exposure given by her militant action make her an even more noticeable figure. Numerous threat on her family and her put her despair, she is feeling alone fighting for something that feel unattainable. ''(…) no one knew of the agony I was going through because of it.(…) all the letters I was receiving from Mama, begging me to leave Mississippi and always telling me that my life was in danger.''(p342). Anne is suffering all along and feel suffocated by the violent and harsh environment of rural Mississippi. Slowly, she is entering a survival mode, straining her mental health to a dangerous point. ''(p335) There was always so much work, so many problems, and so many threats that I hardly ever thought of anything except how to best get the job done and survive from day to day''. During her time at Canton working for CORE, she reaches a level of despair that made her question whenever things are ever going to change. She question the voting aim of the campaign, are they really targeting the most urgent need of the black community. She is acknowledging the fact that the poverty of