A straight-A student who realized her dream of going to college when she won a basketball scholarship, she finally dared to join the NAACP in her junior year. the fear of being killed just because I was black." In that moment was born the passion for freedom and justice that would change her life.
Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. "Anne Moody's autobiography is an eloquent, moving testimonial to her courage."- Chicago Tribune Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South.
The unforgettable memoir of a woman at the front lines of the civil rights movement-a harrowing account of black life in the rural South and a powerful affirmation of one person's ability to affect change. Tanned and a little discolored inside cover.
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