Part one of term paper
Coming of Age in Mississippi is the autobiography of an African American woman growing up in a racist south in the mid 1900s. It is the story of Anne Moody's struggle to deal with the race the racist society she is born into and her fight for freedom for herself and fellow African Americans. The book portrays her fight from when she was a ...

Part two of term paper
... and not an inferior. Anne Moody was raised in the rural Mississippi towns of Centreville, an extremely racist town in the south. Her parents were plantation farmers that were extremely poor and when her father left her mother Anne and her family was much worse off. Her mother moved around a little and had very little money. Anne's childhood consisted of meals of beans and bread and poor clothes. As a child she is not immediately too aware of the difference in skin color between the whites ...