Essay On Coming Age In Mississippi By Anne Moody

Racism is a belief that one race is superior to the other or the practice of treating a person or group of people differently on the basis of their race. Racism is not an idea racism is still present in our society . Whether you’re walking down the street, coming out of a convenient store, listening to music or just an elderly old man , the effect of racism can still hit you dead in the face. This research paper is about a book called Coming Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody. Anne was a young college student trying to make a difference in her community for African American people. Anne was a poor girl from Mississippi and her parents were sharecroppers and did not have the money to send her to college. Her parents just wanted her to go to college

Throughout the story, African Americans in the 1950s and 60s allowed racism to defeat them and they were feared. Moody was not scared to fight for equality. She was eager to gain civil rights for African Americans.
Anne Moody does an outstanding job of fetching her theme by employing DIDLS. On page 1242, Anne showcase diction by saying said she was ‘… one of Salter’s most faithful canvassers and church speaker’. The definition of canvasser is someone who solicits votes or to persuade someone in their favor. Anne was one of the many college students that went on excursions with others to help her make a difference in African American society. ‘the Negro Movement’ when it is mentioned on page 1243, is about the ‘ Negro Movement’ meaning African Americans beginning to stand up for their rights. In this book, they followed Dr. Martin Luther King’s way of non-violence. By having sit-in in restaurants and boycotting the local and city business. As they protested, they came across challenging times when they wanted to fight back but indeed they did not. ‘A man rushed forward, threw Memphis from his seat, and slapped my

“John Salter, who was in charge of NAACP activities on campus… he told me that sit-in demonstrations were about to start in Jackson and that he wanted me to be the spokesperson for a team that would sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter.” She was the one who would stand up and give statements to the press such as “ we were all students at Tougaloo College, that we were represented by no particular organization, and that we planned to stay there even after the store closed. All we want is service,” Moody did not want the African Americans to give up just because there was Jim Crow Laws in place. She did sit-ins to let African Americans know their rights out in public. Boycotts would hurt businesses ran by Caucasians. Once more and more people join in on ‘The Negro Movement” as they liked to call it blacks started to get respect. Yet, blacks where still punished even if they did not retaliate, and they were not given justice. In today’s society, African Americans still fight for