1.) Some of Anne Moody’s most important early childhood experiences were her uncle (who wasn’t much older than her) watching her and her baby sister, Adline. Her uncle, George Lee, would abuse the two children, mainly Essie Mae. George Lee would abuse the children because he wanted to play out in the woods rather than watch babies all day long. He burned down the house accidentally after telling the two young children “I’m goin’ to burn you two cryin’ fools up. The i won’t have to come here and keep yo’ asses every day.” (Moody 7) George Lee began setting fire to the “bulging” wallpaper. Essie Mae recalls that after she peed all down her legs, George Lee took her and Adline out to the porch to play and the adults came running up the hill
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Blacks lived and grew up in poor conditions, working hard jobs that paid poorly. When Anne (Essie Mae) was four years old she lived with her family, father, mother, and younger sister Adline in a small, dilapidated, plantation shack with wallpaper pinned to the walls, with no electricity. The house had one big room and a kitchen, and the family coexisted in the same living space. While atop the lived the plantation owners, in their huge white house equipped with electricity and enough space than they needed. This contrast in living conditions was the norm back when Anne was growing up. The whites were generally the bosses of blacks whenever they found jobs and exercised their power over blacks by not only giving them tiny shacks to live in, but by cutting their pay for unknown …show more content…
Even white women at that time weren’t treated as equals compared to white males. Anne has to fight twice as hard when it comes to her experiences in the movement, many other black women in the movement can relate to her cause and her fight for civil rights of not only black citizens, but also female black citizens. Anne’s body is sexualized without her permission for the first time when she enters high school, as a result of being a woman. When Anne enters college at Natchez college, she is ogled by the dean and propositioned by fellow students. Black women are historically at the very bottom of the social hierarchy, lower than black men, even. Black women face persecution for both race and gender and nothing is more threatening to white society than a black
Blacks lived and grew up in poor conditions, working hard jobs that paid poorly. When Anne (Essie Mae) was four years old she lived with her family, father, mother, and younger sister Adline in a small, dilapidated, plantation shack with wallpaper pinned to the walls, with no electricity. The house had one big room and a kitchen, and the family coexisted in the same living space. While atop the lived the plantation owners, in their huge white house equipped with electricity and enough space than they needed. This contrast in living conditions was the norm back when Anne was growing up. The whites were generally the bosses of blacks whenever they found jobs and exercised their power over blacks by not only giving them tiny shacks to live in, but by cutting their pay for unknown …show more content…
Even white women at that time weren’t treated as equals compared to white males. Anne has to fight twice as hard when it comes to her experiences in the movement, many other black women in the movement can relate to her cause and her fight for civil rights of not only black citizens, but also female black citizens. Anne’s body is sexualized without her permission for the first time when she enters high school, as a result of being a woman. When Anne enters college at Natchez college, she is ogled by the dean and propositioned by fellow students. Black women are historically at the very bottom of the social hierarchy, lower than black men, even. Black women face persecution for both race and gender and nothing is more threatening to white society than a black