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Places and circumstances that shaped Anne Moody's early resistance and writing
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The Black Freedom Movement in Mississippi
Anne Moody's Path to Education From Segregated Rural Schools to Historically Black Colleges
Links to Additional Reading
The Black Freedom Movement in Mississippi
Documentaries & Panel Discussions
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Author Dalton Lyon describing the Jackson Church Visit Campaign detailed in Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi
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Panel featuring former freedom riders, many of whom appear in Coming of Age in Mississippi, describing their work in the Mississippi Movement
Anne Moody's Path to Education
From a small, one-room schoolhouse to the academic and activist energies of Tougaloo College, Anne Moody's description of her education provides the reader with her lived experience of segregation and her drive to find a place that would match her ambition.
Elementary School: Hamilton Houston's films documenting educational facilities for black children in the American South during the Jim Crow era mirror many of Anne Moody's descriptions in Coming of Age in Mississippi. For more information on Houston's work, see his NAACP commemorative page.
