Coming of Age in Mississippi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coming of Age in Mississippi write by Anne Moody. This book was released on 2011-09-07. Coming of Age in Mississippi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. “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 week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till’s lynching. Before then, she had “known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was . . . 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. 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. Through the NAACP and later through CORE and SNCC, she experienced firsthand the demonstrations and sit-ins that were the mainstay of the civil rights movement—and the arrests and jailings, the shotguns, fire hoses, police dogs, billy clubs, and deadly force that were used to destroy it. A deeply personal story but also a portrait of a turning point in our nation’s destiny, this autobiography lets us see history in the making, through the eyes of one of the footsoldiers in the civil rights movement. Praise for Coming of Age in Mississippi “A history of our time, seen from the bottom up, through the eyes of someone who decided for herself that things had to be changed . . . a timely reminder that we cannot now relax.”—Senator Edward Kennedy, The New York Times Book Review “Something is new here . . . rural southern black life begins to speak. It hits the page like a natural force, crude and undeniable and, against all principles of beauty, beautiful.”—The Nation “Engrossing, sensitive, beautiful . . . so candid, so honest, and so touching, as to make it virtually impossible to put down.”—San Francisco Sun-Reporter
Mississippi Trial, 1955
Mississippi Trial, 1955 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mississippi Trial, 1955 write by Chris Crowe. This book was released on 2002-05-27. Mississippi Trial, 1955 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the fiftieth anniversary approaches, there's a renewed interest in this infamous 1955 murder case, which made a lasting mark on American culture, as well as the future Civil Rights Movement. Chris Crowe's IRA Award-winning novel and his gripping, photo-illustrated nonfiction work are currently the only books on the teenager's murder written for young adults.
The Last Resort
The Last Resort - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Resort write by Norma Watkins. This book was released on 2011-05-09. The Last Resort available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament to white patriarchy, she sees herself failing at the ideal of becoming a southern lady. The Last Resort, her compelling memoir, begins in childhood at Allison's Wells, a popular Mississippi spa for proper white people, run by her aunt. Life at the rambling hotel seems like paradise. Yet young Norma wonders at a caste system that has colored people cooking every meal while forbidding their sitting with whites to eat. Once integration is court-mandated, her beloved father becomes a stalwart captain in defense of Jim Crow as a counselor to fiery, segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. His daughter flounders, looking for escape. A fine house, wonderful children, and a successful husband do not compensate for the shock of Mississippi's brutal response to change, daily made manifest by the men in her home. A sexually bleak marriage only emphasizes a growing emotional emptiness. When a civil rights lawyer offers love and escape, does a good southern lady dare leave her home state and closed society behind? With humor and heartbreak, The Last Resort conveys at once the idyllic charm and the impossible compromises of a lost way of life.
Mr. Death
Mr. Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mr. Death write by Anne Moody. This book was released on 1975. Mr. Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Growing Up in Mississippi
Growing Up in Mississippi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Growing Up in Mississippi write by Bertha M. Davis. This book was released on 2004. Growing Up in Mississippi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
