Coming Of Age In Mississippi Book Report

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Reading the book “Coming of Age in Mississippi” by Anne Moody helped me to learn many things about the American society, mostly about the racial discrimination that existed between the black and white people. Anne Moody depicted the struggles faced by the black people in a very lively way as possible for the readers to get the feeling of how tough being a black was like during those times. All the struggles she had to go through in the past shows how much things have changed now. There are many key points in this book for us to remember. Out of all those, the things that I felt most important to remember are about the racial discrimination between the black and white people during the old times, despite being a woman how Anne Moody came out strong from all those …show more content…

So she was later recommended by her president to study at Tuscaloo, where she got chance to do what she always wanted to do. She got into the NAACP to take part in the anti-discrimination campaign along with Martin Luther King and other social activists. Unmoved by the threats from different white people, she carried on with the campaign even when her family and friends became far from her. Eventually different events like thrashing of her and other activists during a sit in and killing of one of the activists made Anne very tired and stressed out. It was a very long time after Anne that finally the black people of the American society got freedom from the social discrimination but her contributions were also the ones that cannot be forgotten. So after reading the book “Coming of Age in Mississippi”, I learnt a lot of things about the American history about the racial discrimination between the blacks and whites through the writings of Anne Moody. The violence black people faced during those times and the revolution of blacks against the whites were the key events in the book which I will

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