Coming of Age in Mississippi

Title: Coming of Age in Mississippi
Author: Anne Moody
Memoir: 1689215
ISBN: 9780440314882
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1992
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reissue
Section: Social Science | Cultural & Ethnic Studies | American - African American & Black Studies
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story -- the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown up black in Mississippi in the forties an fifties -- and to have survived with pride and courage intact.

In this now classic autobiography, she details the sights, smells, and suffering of growing up in a racist society and candidily reveals the soul of a black girl who had the courage to challenge it. The result is a touchstone work: an accurate, authoritative portrait of black family life in the rural South and a moving account of a woman's indomitable heart.