In college Annie embarks on the journey of becoming a civil rights activist. She was sick of living in Jim Crow society being controlled by racism and sexism. She became involved in civil rights organizations like the NAACP and CORE. She participates in sit-ins, rallies, and other forms of activism, but feels like the movement is not doing all that it can. The lynching of Emmett Till is particular really impacts young Annie. She is frustrated by how willingly other blacks are to accept injustice, including her family, her mother says to her “A boy from Mississippi would have known better than that. The boy was from Chicago. Negroes up North have no respect for people. They think they can get away with anything"(Moody, 132) She cannot fathom
