While at Tugaloo, Moody became an activist in the civil rights movement, maintaining involvement with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the National Association for the. She then won an academic scholarship to Tugaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, and received a bachelor of science degree in 1964. of Age in Mississippi, she is the author of Mr. She won a basketball scholarship to Natchez Junior College and was in attendance from 1959 through 1961. Anne Moody has written about her experiences growing up black in rural Mississippi. Despite her impoverished circumstances, which led her to work from the fourth grade on, Moody was a good student. Moody grew up in and around Centreville, where she attended segregated schools. Moody's father left the family when she was only a young child, and her mother supported the family through domestic and restaurant work. Very Good+, top edge a little dampstained, gift inscription to former owner on front free endpaper above authors inscription, in Very Good+ dustjacket with. Born Essie Mae Moody on September 15, 1940, near Centreville, Mississippi, Moody was the daughter of poor African-American sharecroppers.
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