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Book Review of Ann Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

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"Coming of Age in Mississippi" is an autobiographical account of author Ann Moodys experiences in growing up during the 1940s and 1950s in the deep south. As an African  American Ann Moody faced many social atrocities revolving around the deeply ingrained racism which existed in the south during this time period. Moody was a member of a black  family who, like many other blacks of the time, were frequent victims of deeply seated prejudice and racial hatred. Blacks were simply viewed as inferiors this earlier part of  American history and there were no social consequences for the many injustices which occurred. Even those blacks and whites who recognized these injustices most typically just let them pass,  afraid to make their objections known for fear of retaliation. Moody recounts: "They knew,  as I knew the price you pay daily for being black" Moody was unique, however.  She would use that "price" as an inspiration to work for change. She would be one of the few that would dare to challenge the social mores to  effect societal change. She would become on of the first blacks to protest unfair treatment at the Woolworths counter in Jackson Mississippi. She would lead voter registrations drives in  some of the most dangerous areas of the south, areas which she clarifies were: "where  Negroes frequently turned up dead" Although slavery as a societal institution had been over in