Anne Moody’s Exceptional Personality and Involvement in Activism

Anne Moody’s Exceptional Personality and Involvement in Activism
(Coming of Age in Mississippi)
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Anne Moody’s Exceptional Personality and Involvement in Activism
(Coming of Age in Mississippi)
Introduction
As Anne Moody puts it in her book, Coming of Age in Mississippi, she explores how African Americans try to endure racism. Though they struggle with many things like poverty, exposing them to a susceptible condition; is equally a challenge because they also oppress themselves (blacks oppressing each other). Besides, in the book, Coming of Age in Mississippi, she exposes how her environment contributed immensely to her development as a civil rights activist and how she got involved in the movement. The civil rights campaign was based on several concerns that most individuals had rejected. Coming of Age in Mississippi provided Anne Moody, both the narrator and participant, with a fresh glance at the efforts numerous peoples had devoted and the struggles endured to achieve equal rights. Anne says that she was inspired by people who she once worked for during her childhood life while striving to overcome her family social class, low-social class, and find the way to the top hierarchy by being optimistic and neglecting the household’s methods of earning a living (Moody, 2004). Thus, this literature shall discuss Anne's exceptional personality and development into a civil rights activist.
Anne Moody’s involvement in the civil rights movement
Anne Moody started her activist role as early as her childhood, where she started to work at a tender age, age ten, to fend for her family. She fills her history with her understandings of the South instead of the political context in which such encounters happen to outline how the circumstances under which she was raised impacted her personality. Since she is both the narrator and writer, Moody becomes both witness and participant in her societal environment. Besides, in her social relations with a sequence of employers and at school, Moody gathers comprehensive information regarding discrimination and the responsibility of African Americans in her region, the South (Moody, 2004). Instead of viewing Whites as enemies or evil, Moody focuses on the Black people’s behavior towards one another, whether they do them knowingly or unconsciously while participating in their cruelty. She witnesses how her mother accepted her social status as, second-class citizen while urging her not to be over-ambitious by interacting increasingly with Whites like the Claiborne family.
Additionally, Moody equally realizes how lighter-skinned Blacks, like Miss Pearl, espouse the chauvinistic attitudes of White people by ignoring Blacks with darker skin and treating them as inferior; to Moody, it appears unproductive. Moody also noticed that some White people, including her employers, Mrs. Claiborne and Linda Jean Jenkins, inspired her and appreciated her aptitude; on the other hand, individuals, like Mrs. Burke, do the reverse. Mrs. Burke tried...