The eldest of six children, Moody was particularly aware of the plight of poor black women and their children. Moody was angered by the apathy and seeming indifference that the black community had toward the inferior social and economic positions assigned to them. Like Richard Wright, she questioned the position of superiority and privilege granted to whites, but met with fear and silence from the adults around her. Even at a young age, Moody recognized the social and economic forces impacting on her family. While Jacobs and Terrell recalled Edenic periods in their early lives, Moody's did not contain such innocence.
Part 1 (“Childhood”) concerns Moody's early years and her family's struggles and instability. Jacobs 's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) Mary Church Terrell 's A Black Woman in a White World (1940), and Richard Wright 's Black Boy (1945) Moody's work has been compared to Harriet A. The autobiography also chronicles the growth of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the 1950s and 1960s, thus making the work a record of personal and political importance.Ĭoming of Age in Mississippi emerges out of a long tradition in African American literature, dating back to the slave narratives of the nineteenth century and continuing with autobiographies of the twentieth century. In Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968), Moody describes growing up in rural Mississippi where racism, lack of opportunity, and economic failure devastated her family and others in the African American community. (b. 1940), civil rights activist and writer.Ī version of this article originally appeared in The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature.Īnne Moody was born in 1940, the daughter of sharecroppers. "Moody, Anne." Oxford African American Studies Center.
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