![]() ![]() But now there was…the fear of being killed just because I was black." In that moment was born the passion for freedom and justice that would change her life.Īn all-A student whose dream of going to college is realized when she wins a basketball scholarship, she finally dares to join the NAACP in her junior year. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Anne Moody shares her experiences growing up in the rural South in the 1940s and 50s, and explains how she became involved in the civil rights movement.īorn to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. ![]()
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