Summary Of Freedom By Anne Moody

I believe that Anne Moody’s main point in this second section of the book is that you got to stand up and almost die for what you believe in if you want to see change but sometimes even that’s not enough and sometimes you have to wonder what is enough and if the world will ever change. Today, this is still true people still write songs about how the world could and needs to be better. Even though now African Americans can vote and we even have had an African-American president things are still not perfect and the world is definitely still not equal.
The first thing I observed especially during the Movement section was how Annie kept mentioning how she was losing weight drastically and never seemed to have enough to eat. This struck me how …show more content…
I noticed especially once she got to Madison county, Canton, Mississippi, her group and the African Americans in her community’s lives seemed to be in danger every other day. Especially after they would stage a protest or seem to have a lot of active members.
It was interesting to note how many of the African American children in Annie’s community would be unable to go to school because they could not afford new school clothes. It is sad to see how when their parents could not get jobs due to the discrimination against African Americans at that time led to their children not being able to get an education because of this. This makes a chain effect that without someone stepping in or some change of some sort to this situation would never be rectified and African Americans would forever be at a disadvantage.
I loved this reading and the courageousness of Annie especially in the last part of the book. Through her college years, she showed bravery towards the cook, women’s basketball coach, and president at her first college, but it was not until she joined the Civil Rights movement did I see how truly strong of a woman she