Anne Moodys Coming of Age in Mississippi :: Anne Moody Coming Age Mississippi

In this autobiography of Anne glowering a.k.a. Essie Mae as she is very much called in the book, is the struggles for rights that poor black Americans had in Mississippi. Things in her life choke her to be such an activist in the fight for black equation during this time. She had to go through a lot of adversity move uping up like being beat, house being burned down, moving to polar school, and being abuse by her moms boyfriend. One incident that would make Anne dark curious about racism in the south was the incident in the flick Theater with the first white friends she had do. The separate was the death of Emmett Tillman and other racial incidents that would involve harsh and deadly circumstances. These this would make Miss Moody realize that this should not be tolerated in a free world. basic time she ever accounts racism was at the Movie Theater, before she had eve realized what it was. This incident made her start questioning what racism was and what made blacks a nd whites different. In Centreville, Mississippi where she lived with her arrive and a sister (Adline) and brother (Junior). In Centreville they meet two other kids that just had happened to be white. Essie Mae had never been a friend with white kids. The two white children Katie and amount would always parkway their bikes and skates in front of Essie Mae yard. So they got their attention on one afternoon by making Indian noises to draw them to play with the others. Katie and Bill would permit Essie ride their bikes and skates all the time, the others where too young to let them try. So they would grow a close relationship not knowing what others might gauge of these two groups playing. Every Saturday Essies mother would always take them to the movies, where the blacks would have to tin can in the balcony and whites could seat in the bottom level. But they saw Katie and Bill there so Essie and her bother and sister followed them to the bottom level. While mother was not noticing what was going on, when mother noticed she began to start yelling and move them out the door. The children begun to cry this would make mom just leave the Movie Theater.