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Anne Moody
Anne Moody (September 15, 1940 – February 5, 2015) was an African-American author who wrote about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi, her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement through the NAACP, CORE and SNCC. Moody fought racism and segregation from when she was a little girl in Centerville, Mississippi and continued throughout her adult life around the South.
==Life==
Born Essie Mae Moody on September 15, she was the oldest of eight children. After her parents split up when she was 5 or 6 years old,〔 she grew up with her mother, Elmira aka Toosweet, in Centreville, Mississippi, while her father lived with his new wife, Emma,〔 in nearby Woodville. At a young age she began working for white families in the area, cleaning their houses and helping their children with homework for only a few dollars a week, while earning perfect grades in school and helping at Mount Pleasant church.〔 After graduating with honors from a segregated, all-black high school, she attended Natchez Junior College (also all black) in 1961〔( Anne Moody Biography.com Retrieved 20 April 2015 )〕 under a basketball scholarship.〔
Then she moved on to Tougaloo College on an academic scholarship to earn a bachelor's degree. She became involved with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. After graduation, Moody became a full-time worker in the Civil Rights Movement, participating in protests and a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunchcounter in Jackson, when a mob attacked her, fellow student Joan Trumpauer and Tougaloo professor John Salter Jr, pouring flour, salt, sugar and mustard on top of them,〔Jerry Mitchell, ("Woolworth's sit-in activist Anne Moody, 74, dies" ), ''USA Today'', February 10, 2015.〕 as depicted in a ''Jackson Daily News'' photograph.〔(Photo of Woolworth's lunchcounter sit-in in Jackson, Mississippi, 28 May 1963, including Anne Moody ). ''The Guardian'', March 27, 2015.〕 Two weeks after the sit-in, the Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his family home in Jackson.〔Associated Press, ("Anne Moody, Mississippi civil rights activist, dies at 74" ), NOLA.com, February 7, 2015.〕 She was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for attempting to protest inside of a post office with 13 other protesters, including Joan Tumpauer, Doris Erskine, Jeanette King, Lois Chaffee.〔
During Freedom Summer, she worked for CORE in the town of Canton. In 1967 she married a white man who was an NYU graduate student. In 1971 she gave birth to her son Sasha Strauss.〔 In 1972 her family moved to Berlin after she received a full-time scholarship and they remained there until 1974 when they returned to America. Upon her return, she wrote a sequel to her autobiography entitled ''Farewell to Too Sweet'', which covered her life from 1974 to 1984, and in a 1985 interview with Debra Spencer she spoke of writing other books of memoirs,〔Debra Spencer, (Transcript (74 pp.) of interview with Anne Moody ), p. 51; Department of Archives & History Building, Jackson, Mississippi, February 19, 1985, AU 76 OHP 403.〕 all of which remain unpublished. She was also involved in the anti-nuclear movement. She resettled in Mississippi in the early 1990s,〔 though never felt at ease there according to her sister Adline Moody.〔
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