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Coming of Age in Mississippi
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Book Description
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." I... More
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PublisherDelta
BindingPaperback (28 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages432
ISBN-100385337817
ISBN-13978-0385337816
Publication Date02/03/2004
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About Anne Moody (Author) : Anne Moody is a published author of young adult books. Some of the published credits of Anne Moody include Coming of Age in Mississippi.
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