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 often called in the book, is the struggles for rights that poor black Americans had in Mississippi. Things in her life lead her to be such an activist in the passage of arms for black equality during this time. She had to go through a lot of harm growing up like being beat, house being burn down, moving to different school, and being abuse by her moms boyfriend. One resultant that would attain Anne Moody curious about racism in the southern was the incident in the moving-picture show Theater with the first white friends she had made. The other(a) 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. First time she ever accounts racism was at the Movie Theater, before she had even realized what it was. This incident made her sop up question what racism was a nd what made blacks and whites different. In Centreville, Mississippi where she lived with her mother and a sis (Adline) and brother (Junior). In Centreville they meet two other kids that honorable had happened to be white. Essie Mae had never been a friend with white kids. The two white children Katie and measure would always ride 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 period of 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 well-educated what others might think of these two groups playing. Every Saturday Essies mother would always watch them to the movies, where the blacks would have to seat in the balcony and whites could seat in the nookie level. merely 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 pulling them out the door. The children begun to cry this would make mom just leave the Movie Theater.