Introduction The true to life story “Coming of age in Mississippi” by Anne Moody, is all about a girl who lives and grows up in the rural towns of Mississippi as an American-African woman. The book is all about the childhood life of Anne through her teenage years and her struggles against racism among white people and sexism among the activists.
Summary
The story begins on a shack on a plantation where she and her mother, Toosweeth, her father Diddly, and her sister, Adline , lives. Since their family, has many problems especially in terms of financial problems, Anne’s father Diddly leaves the family for an affair with a woman named Florence. Moreover, Toosweet’s family is living with jeopardy that she works as waitress at a cafeteria and her family is always hungry, eating only bread and beans from the work of Anne’s mother. After all that happened, Even though Anne is working part-time …show more content…
When Anne enjoys their new home in Centreville as Raymond, the new partner of her mother, invites her to the upscale church Raymond’s family was attending to, she goes again to another series of conflicts with her mother. In summer of 1955, Anne hears about the National Association for the advancement of colored people, where it is a not legal organization in rural Mississippi. She begins to realize or how to solve the racial inequalities around her and in her environment .Meanwhile, her problems with her family are more pressing that Anne changes her name to Essie Mae because she thinks that it fits for her. In addition, Anne accepts a basketball scholarship to Natchez College, where there she has her first boyfriend. At Tougaloo, she joins the NAACP even though the sheriff tells that it would mean harm to her family . Nonetheless, Anne becomes active in the NAACP and the civil rights movement, despite her family’s will to quit her with her
Summary
The story begins on a shack on a plantation where she and her mother, Toosweeth, her father Diddly, and her sister, Adline , lives. Since their family, has many problems especially in terms of financial problems, Anne’s father Diddly leaves the family for an affair with a woman named Florence. Moreover, Toosweet’s family is living with jeopardy that she works as waitress at a cafeteria and her family is always hungry, eating only bread and beans from the work of Anne’s mother. After all that happened, Even though Anne is working part-time …show more content…
When Anne enjoys their new home in Centreville as Raymond, the new partner of her mother, invites her to the upscale church Raymond’s family was attending to, she goes again to another series of conflicts with her mother. In summer of 1955, Anne hears about the National Association for the advancement of colored people, where it is a not legal organization in rural Mississippi. She begins to realize or how to solve the racial inequalities around her and in her environment .Meanwhile, her problems with her family are more pressing that Anne changes her name to Essie Mae because she thinks that it fits for her. In addition, Anne accepts a basketball scholarship to Natchez College, where there she has her first boyfriend. At Tougaloo, she joins the NAACP even though the sheriff tells that it would mean harm to her family . Nonetheless, Anne becomes active in the NAACP and the civil rights movement, despite her family’s will to quit her with her