Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody | Part 4: The Movement, Chapter 25

Course Hero Literature Instructor Russell Jaffe provides an in-depth summary and analysis of Part 4: The Movement, Chapter 25 of Anne Moody's memoir Coming of Age in Mississippi.


Anne Moody's memoir Coming of Age in Mississippi traces her journey from rural Mississippi to the center of the national Civil Rights Movement.

As a young girl Moody witnesses and experiences anti-black racism first hand. Navigating her early working and academic life as a young black woman, she soon grows more assertive in the face of racist treatment and begins participating in civil rights protests.

Facing violence and even putting her own family at risk, she nonetheless resolves to continue her advocacy. Her autobiography captures her personal struggles with racism and recalls the triumphs and setbacks of the civil rights movement.

Moody bears witness to some of the seminal events of the movement, from Medgar Evers's funeral to Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic I Have a Dream Speech.

African American Civil Rights Activist Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi was first published in 1968. The daughter of Mississippi sharecroppers, Moody was barred from her hometown when she became a civil rights activist. Her words bring a unique, personal perspective to the massive social changes sweeping the United States during the mid-20th century.

The autobiography Coming of Age in Mississippi contains many powerful themes, including the struggle of social change in the face of historical inequality; racism as violence—the concept that physical and psychological aggression reinforce segregation; and poverty’s oppression—the notion that reliance on white employers keeps blacks compliant and underpaid.


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I don't blame her. I couldn't imagine being in that situation as a black person myself. I respect her bravery.