Southern Black people of Moody's age are different from the older generation in that they're prepared to be more forthright in standing up for their civil rights.

Anne realizes that if anything is going to change, African Americans need to stand up and be counted and fight against racial oppression, irrespective of the numerous dangers involved.

With that it mind, she becomes deeply involved in the burgeoning civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King. Although Anne will become critical in due course of the civil rights movement's leadership, she will remain committed to making the necessary radical change in society and securing civil rights for African Americans.

The determination of Anne and her fellow activists gives the civil rights movement a greater sense of urgency than that of previous generations. No longer willing to adopt an incrementalistic approach, they are more insistent in demanding the rights to which they as American citizens are fully entitled.