false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg 5736 7 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. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till&#8217;s lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was&#8230;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.<br><br>An all-A student whose dream of going to college is realized when she wins a basketball scholarship, she finally dares to join the NAACP in her junior year. Through the NAACP and later through CORE and SNCC she has first-hand experience of 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.<br><br>A deeply personal story but also a portrait of a turning point in our nation&#8217;s destiny, this autobiography lets us see history in the making, through the eyes of one of the footsoldiers in the civil rights movement. 847609 book 1968 Coming of Age in Mississippi total:845|5:234|4:368|3:200|2:33|1:10| 845 3318 1104 119 497165 0440314887 9780440314882 79 14 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175237936m/497165.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/497165.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 2 1 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 19:24:56 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 20:11:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 497165 0440314887 9780440314882 79 14 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175237936m/497165.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/497165.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 4 1 false Thu Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 18:47:23 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 09:21:42 -0700 2008
As a child in the United States, I was confronted every single February with what I thought was considered to be the civil rights movement. Through various novels I learned about slavery and the conditions on planta...more...]]> 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 4 1 false Sun Oct 14 09:17:22 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 07:06:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 3 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Sep 27 13:23:05 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 21 21:06:04 -0800 2008
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...But I'm pleasantly surprised that it's an easy and interesting read. As Moody matter-of-factly recounts her childhood experiences in the deep south, starting from age six or so; as her understan...more...]]> 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 5 1 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 11:45:29 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 14 19:43:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 5 1 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 26 19:38:06 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 19:40:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 497165 0440314887 9780440314882 79 14 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175237936m/497165.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/497165.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 3 1 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 07 13:58:26 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 07 14:03:42 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 4 1 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 11:42:14 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 17:33:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 4 1 false Tue Jan 06 22:39:40 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 22:42:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 5 0 false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 16:16:36 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 16:35:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 4 1 false Wed Jan 28 05:36:40 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 05:37:31 -0800 2009 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 4 0 false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 20:14:01 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 20:20:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 0 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1970 Fri Jan 30 19:14:48 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 19:15:46 -0800 2009 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 4 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 09:05:46 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 09:05:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 2 0 false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 18:09:14 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 18:20:45 -0700 2009
I found the book very interesting. And alm...more...]]> 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 4 1 false Thu Nov 27 22:06:33 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 22:08:22 -0800 2008 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 5 0 false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 09:37:32 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 09:46:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 5 0 false Tue Jul 07 16:29:13 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 16:33:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5736 0385337817 9780385337816 762 104 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543028m/5736.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi 5 1 false Mon Oct 08 16:22:13 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 16:23:13 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5736