The Oxford Companion to American Literature


Moody, Anne

Moody, Anne( 1940– ),
memoirist of the civil rights movement. Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968) tells of her experiences growing up Southern and black and the confrontation of what Martin Luther King called “physical force with soul force.”

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