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Anne Moody

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September 15, 1940 in Centreville, Mississippi, The United States

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Biographies & Memoirs, Short Stories

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Born Essie Mae Moody on September 15, 1940, near Centreville, Mississippi, Moody was the daughter of poor African-American sharecroppers. She was the oldest of nine children.

She won a basketball scholarship to Natchez Junior College and was in attendance from 1959 through 1961. She then won an academic scholarship to Tugaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, and received a bachelor of science degree in 1964.

While at Tugaloo, Moody became an activist in the civil rights movement, maintaining involvement with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1963, she was one of three young people who staged a sit-in at a...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 2,155 ratings · 208 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Coming of Age in Mississippi 3.99 avg rating — 2,152 ratings — published 1968 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Mr. Death: Four Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Coming of Age in Mississippi (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Famous People Stories: 5th Grade Reading Level by Anne Moody, Goldie Silverman 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Famous People Stories: 4th Grade Reading Level 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Civil Rights: The African-American Struggle for Equality by Robert Penn Warren, Anne Moody, The President’s Committee on Civil Rights 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999	My rating:

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“I was fifteen years old when I began to hate people.”
― Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi

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“I was sick of pretending, sick of selling my feelings for a dollar a day.”
― Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi

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“I'm through with you. Yes, I am going to put you down. From now on, I am my own God. I am going to live by the rules I se for myself. I'll discard everything I was once taught about you. Then I'll be you. I'll be my own God, living my life as I see fit. Not as Mr. Charlie says I should live it, or Mama or anybody else. I shall do as I want in this society that apparently wasn't meant for me and my kind. If you are getting angry because I am talking to you like this, then just kill me, leave me here in this graveyard dead. Maybe thats where all of us belong anyway. Maybe then we wouldn't have to suffer so much. At the rate we are being killed now, we'll all be soon dead anyway.”
― Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi

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