Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South

Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she beg…

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