Coming of Age in Mississippi | Coming of Age in Mississippi

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Author: Anne Moody
First Published: 1968
Time of Work: 1944–1964
Setting: Centreville, Natchez, Tougaloo, Jackson, and Canton, Mississippi; Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana; and Washington, D.C.
Principal Characters: Anne Moody, Mama Moody, Daddy Fred “Diddly” Moody, Mrs. Claiborne, Raymond Davis, Adiline, Principal Willis, Emma, C. O. Chinn, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Maturation or coming of age, Social action, Racism, South or Southerners, Autobiography, Alienation, Poverty or poor people
Locales: New Orleans, LA, Washington, D.C., Natchez, MS, Jackson, MS, Baton Rouge, LA, Canton, MS, Centreville, MS, Tougaloo, MS

Anne Moody’s stark, often bitter, and always compelling autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi, records the events in her life as a young African American from the South from her fourth to her twenty-fourth year—1944 to 1964. Written in the first person, the book is a detailed, chronological narrative, rich in characters and dialogues evocative of the earthy, often raw vernacular of impoverished and racially oppressed African Americans in Mississippi during the formative period of the Civil Rights movement. There are thirty chapters grouped in...

Coming of Age in Mississippi | Coming of Age in Mississippi

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