![]() ![]() Racism was one of the key themes in the memoir of this famous civil rights movement activist. This essay focuses on the issue of discrimination in Anne Moody’s autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi. In this outstanding autobiography, she gives an account of the trauma and suffering of living in a racist society and reveals the courage of a black girl who stood firm to counter this social evil. She embarked on civil rights activism and particularly sought to address racial discrimination against black Americans in the United States. ![]() Being an African-American author, Moody chose to write about her experiences given that she was raised up in a poor black rural society in Mississippi. ![]()
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