What Do I Read Next?
- Mr. Death: Four Stories (1975) is Moody's sole other published work.
- Richard Wright's autobiography, Black Boy (1945), employs fictional and novelistic techniques to depict Wright's childhood in Mississippi and Tennessee. It is widely regarded as one of his greatest works.
- Albert French's novel Billy (1995) is set in rural Mississippi during the 1930s. When ten-year-old Billy inadvertently kills a white teenager, he faces trial in a courtroom that starkly reveals the racism and injustice prevalent in the South at that time.
- Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights (1985) is James Farmer's award-winning literary contribution to the civil rights movement. Farmer, who founded CORE in 1942, narrates the struggles he and other civil rights leaders endured to achieve their significant goals.
- I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (1996), by Charles M. Payne, highlights grassroots organization and the individuals involved in the civil rights movement in Mississippi.
- The Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird (1961), by Harper Lee, tells the story of a small-town southern lawyer who defends an African-American man accused of raping a white woman.
- A Way Out of No Way: Writings about Growing Up Black in America (1996), edited by Jacqueline Wilson, is a collection of works by African-American writers such as Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Jamaica Kincaid. These pieces address issues of family, race, and coming of age.
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