Coming to Age in Mississippi

What specific experiences and circumstances in her childhood and adolescence le Anne Moody to become a civil rights activist? What impacts did her activism have on her and her family? Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody is an autobiography of her life growing up in Mississippi and her civil rights movement work. Anne Moody depicts a time social change and injustice. She was given a unique view of life, by being integrated within the lives of the Cook household and especially the Claiborne household. They treated her fairly and showed her what life could be, and made her question why it wasn’t always like this. Her life was torn with violence, segregation, and those reasons influenced her to become a part of the civil rights movement, which impacted not only her, but also her family. Along with education and the fundamental morals she grew up with, she was allowed to get out of Mississippi and go make a difference. Along with these good intentions the civil rights work took a toll on Anne Moody, emotionally and physically. The experiences in her childhood to young adult formed her life in wanted to create change for the injustices she saw. From an early age Anne Moody saw the differences between the blacks and whites in her community. Segregation was presented right away, in the living quarters of Anne and her family. Anne Moody didn’t understand what segregation was for a long time. The social aspects of what it was eluded her until the movie theater. She was seven; she made friends with Bill and Katie who lived nearby. She saw that they had things like skates, a bike, a play house that her family didn’t have, but over they were equal when they played together. When her mother took her and her siblings to the movie theater on Saturday, Anne saw Katie and ran after her in the white section of the theater. “I now realized that not only were they better than me because they were white, but everything they owned and everything connected with them was better