Report for `Coming of Age in Mississippi`

COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI

By : Anne Moody

A Book Report

Introduction

By the mid 1950s , it is considered to be the hardest way of living of the Southern African Americans in the rural south . They became slaves and force to engage in civil war because black stands only as second-class citizenships . Most of the whites usually terrorized the black and they are considering them as a virus that has no cure to their society , in political terms the southern black in year 1950s are not allowed to engage in

political matters particularly when it comes to voting . The black people are excluded from voting and they were considered as useless voters . Because of strong racial discrimination implemented to the public , the mood of survivals became a serious threat to the black people . In to survive , the black people are forced to work as a slave to be able to support their family . Discrimination spread vastly to the southern African American specially when a Jim Crow ' law already exists , all the laws are granted for the white people which very unfair and opposites to the rights of the black . All the public facilities travel lines route and voting systems are segregated and shuttered for them as well as imbalance education . Black people are paralyzed when it comes to their rights and responsibilities that resulted to poverty and suffering for them . Discrimination really affects the lifestyle as well as their freedom of the southern black

About the Author

Anne Moody or known as Essie Mae Moody was born on September 15 , 1940 near Centerville in Mississippi . Anne grew up in a poor African- American family wherein her parents are tenant farmers in a field that owned by a white American farmer . They experienced many threat in their life especially in discrimination and racism . Poverty also forced her family to work for the white people and treat them as low class citizens , in to support her family Anne Moody in her young age experience to work in white family . To support her studies and to provide foods for her family , Anne work hard and spend most of her time after her class as a servant in white families . All the experiences sacrifices , and difficulties of Anne Moody 's family are also characterized by the huge effect of discrimination in southern black in the mid 1950s

Content and Summary

Despite of their poverty in life , Anne Moody did not allow poverty to affect her educational status , because she has goals and ambitions in life that she wanted to achieve . She was forced to leave her home and family just to study in other country . The results are quite successful to Anne because she receives a basketball scholarship grant in Natchez Junior College this is a big privilege for her to have this award due to lack of financial stability when it comes to education . She also achieved an academic scholarship in Tugaloo College in Jackson Mississippi and had a Bachelor of...