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Coming of Age in Mississippi
 

Coming of Age in Mississippi

by Anne Moody

Born 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. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till’s lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was…the fear of being killed just because I... (read more)

Top tags: coming of age,  biography,  nonfiction,  african american history,  civil rights (all tags)

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For the love of History 137 books / 250 members / 70 posts History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. ~Winston Churchill
Sankofa Literary Society Book Club (SLS) 95 books / 278 members / 136 posts
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The Black Authors Network Talk Show (BAN)
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Black Author Network Radio-Founder
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