Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South by Anne Moody

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South

Anne Moody

424 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography history memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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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 week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's ly...

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informative 77%
emotional 66%
challenging 57%
reflective 48%
inspiring 40%
tense 40%
dark 37%
sad 37%
hopeful 17%
adventurous 4%
funny 2%

Pace

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slow 27%
fast 13%

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