Anne Moody’s “Coming to age in Mississippi” illustrates how the economic, and social injustices and fears that plagued her childhood in the rural south shaped her future as a leading advocate during the Civil Rights Movement.
From her earliest memories Moody recognized the color of skin would dictate her finances. In the first chapter of her autobiography, moody describes the rickety shack her sharecropping family lived in when she was four, and how it “was up on the hill with Mr. Carters big white house”.” She also noted that she rarely spent time with her parents when she was a toddler because they labored all day. Throughout her adolescence Moody’s incite of the economical contrast between the whites and blacks of her town increases when she works white homes and observes the contrast. Ms. Ola’s white bathtub was a …show more content…
Moody is tired by the end of her biography, and is still struggling to unite the black community. Because Moody’s autobiography was published in 1968, and the civil rights movement was still at a climax, Moody really did not know what the conclusion of the movement would be as she wrote her story, let lone as she sat on the bus.
Many argue that Moody’s uncertainty resonates today. I believe to an extent it does; while I believe that most people are not racist, clear racial inequalities exist. The most prominate aspect of society that is racially unequal is within the United States Justice system. According to the the U.S. Sentencing Commission Black men receive sentences 20 percent longer than white males who have committed similar crimes In. 2002, four out of 5 drug criminals in the United States Were African American or Hispanic, despite the fact that those two groups only represent 22 percent of drug
From her earliest memories Moody recognized the color of skin would dictate her finances. In the first chapter of her autobiography, moody describes the rickety shack her sharecropping family lived in when she was four, and how it “was up on the hill with Mr. Carters big white house”.” She also noted that she rarely spent time with her parents when she was a toddler because they labored all day. Throughout her adolescence Moody’s incite of the economical contrast between the whites and blacks of her town increases when she works white homes and observes the contrast. Ms. Ola’s white bathtub was a …show more content…
Moody is tired by the end of her biography, and is still struggling to unite the black community. Because Moody’s autobiography was published in 1968, and the civil rights movement was still at a climax, Moody really did not know what the conclusion of the movement would be as she wrote her story, let lone as she sat on the bus.
Many argue that Moody’s uncertainty resonates today. I believe to an extent it does; while I believe that most people are not racist, clear racial inequalities exist. The most prominate aspect of society that is racially unequal is within the United States Justice system. According to the the U.S. Sentencing Commission Black men receive sentences 20 percent longer than white males who have committed similar crimes In. 2002, four out of 5 drug criminals in the United States Were African American or Hispanic, despite the fact that those two groups only represent 22 percent of drug