![]() ![]() 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.Ī straight-A student who realized her dream of going to college when she won a basketball scholarship, she finally dared 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's autobiography is an eloquent, moving testimonial to her courage.?Chicago Tribuneīorn 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 unforgettable memoir of a woman at the front lines of the civil rights movement?a harrowing account of black life in the rural South and a powerful affirmation of one person's ability to affect change. ![]()
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