- African American girls, African Americans, Biography, Childhood and youth
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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Anne Moody
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Dial Press, Random House Publishing Group, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780785773887
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“I'm still haunted by dreams of the time we lived on Mr. Carter's plantation.”
Anne Moody was an author and civil rights worker involved with the NAACP, CORE, and SNCC.
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