Moody and Race

Anne Moody, born Essie Mae Moody and the eldest of nine children, was born in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. During her childhood, she lived with her mother in Centreville, where she, from a young age, started working for white families and assissting with her younger siblings. Throughout her childhood, she was surrounded by sexual abuse, lynching, arson, etc. She graduated from her all-Black high school and attended Natchez Junior College through a basketball scholarship.

She later attended Tougaloo College on academic scholarhip to get a degree. While studying at Tougaloo, she became involved win the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. After the shock of the lynching of Emmett Till, she became a worker in the Civil Rights movement.

Moody now lives in New York and works as a Counselor for the New York City Poverty Program.

B.

1. One theme or concept that is found in this book is the pointlessness of distinguishing people by race. In part one of the book, Moody notices the differences in her family's lifestyle