She later receives an academic scholarship to enter Tougaloo College. She finishes high school with very good grades and attends Natchez College on a basketball scholarship.
Moody begins working in Baton Rouge and New Orleans over the summers as a teenager.Īfter a fight with Raymond, Moody leaves home at age 17. Moody also witnesses the death of an entire family when Klansmen set the house on fire. Burke, her employer, makes comments about keeping black people in their place. After Emmett Till’s murder, Moody becomes very aware of the differences when Mrs.
Moody often wonders what makes white people different from black people, but Mama does not want to talk about it. Mama then meets her second husband, Raymond, who builds a house on land owned by his family. Moody starts working at age 9 to help her family while also going to school. After her parents separate, Moody’s mother becomes a single parent and rears Moody and her siblings by herself for several years. The results of this study can be applied to future scholarship and curriculum development for a variety of secondary and post-secondary history classes.Born in rural Mississippi, Moody and her family live as sharecroppers on a white-owned plantation.
This, in turn, provides a starting point for developing robust knowledge of and empathy for the experiences of marginalized people-past and present. Specifically, Moody's memoir provides a rich backdrop to deeply engage with: (1) how race works to shape material consequences and human welfare (2) the experiences of Black women during and prior to the Civil Rights Movement and (3) the limits of the Movement's "success." This study reveals how history students demonstrated understanding of the nuanced, intersectional experiences of one Black American woman to better understand the complexities of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM). In this paper, the author outlines the results of a research study conducted on one class cohort, focusing on the impacts of teaching Black women's history through Anne Moody's 1968 memoir, "Coming of Age in Mississippi," on their understandings of race and the experiences of Black women.
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