Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody

By: Moody, Anne, 1940-Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Dell Publishing, c1968. Description: 384 p. ; 18 cmISBN: 0440314887; 9780440314882Subject(s): African American girls -- Mississippi -- Biography | African Americans -- Mississippi -- Biography | African American girls -- Mississippi -- Social conditions -- 20th century | African Americans -- Mississippi -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Mississippi -- Biography | Mississippi -- Race relationsDDC classification: 809 LOC classification: E185.97.M65 | A3Online resources: WorldCat details

Contents:

Childhood -- High school -- College -- Movement.

Summary: The story of a black girl growing up in the desperate poverty of rural Mississippi. Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story--the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown up black in Mississippi in the forties and fifties -- & to have survived with pride & courage intact. In this now classic autobiography, she details the sights, smells, & suffering of growing up in a racist society & candidly reveals the soul of a black girl who had the courage to challenge it. The result is a touchstone work: an accurate, authoritative portrait of black family life in the rural South & a moving account of a woman's indomitable heart.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Fiction	809 MOC 1968 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		3245

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Autobiographical.

Childhood --
High school --
College --
Movement.

The story of a black girl growing up in the desperate poverty of rural Mississippi. Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story--the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown up black in Mississippi in the forties and fifties -- & to have survived with pride & courage intact. In this now classic autobiography, she details the sights, smells, & suffering of growing up in a racist society & candidly reveals the soul of a black girl who had the courage to challenge it. The result is a touchstone work: an accurate, authoritative portrait of black family life in the rural South & a moving account of a woman's indomitable heart.

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