![]() ![]() In spare, direct prose, she takes readers into the world of African-American sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South. Written when Moody was 28 years old, 'Coming of Age' is a gripping story. Ted Kennedy wrote in 1969, 'If things are somewhat different, then they are not different enough.' Till's death opens Moody's eyes ![]() – or does it instead show us that, as former Sen. Does it signal dramatic progress on race relations in the U.S. Read each year by thousands of high school and college students, it remains a Random House backlist best-seller – a title that continues to sell with little to no marketing.Īs I research Anne Moody's life for my upcoming biography, I often wonder what her memoir's continued popularity means. ![]() Instead, 50 years later, the book still commands a wide readership. It spoke to the day's pressing issues – poverty, race and civil rights – with an urgent timeliness. ( MENAFN- The Conversation) Most memoirs are soon forgotten.Ī rare exception is Anne Moody's 'Coming of Age in Mississippi,' which was published in 1968. ![]()
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