Student Essay: Book Analysis Of Coming Of Age In Mississippi By Anne Moody

NameCourse instructorCourse DateBook analysis of “Coming of Age in Mississippi” by Anne Moody“Coming of age in Mississippi” by Anne Moody is a stunning autobiography work that takes the audience through the life of an African American who was growing up in Mississippi before the civil rights movement. This book was published in 1968 by Bantam Dell. This 432-page book gives the reader the necessary insight into growing up in the period before the civil rights movement. The book takes us through the poverty, various aspects of racism like colorism and the hand work that the author put into to get to where she was. The book is a well written and honest account of the happenings of the period between 1950s and the 1960s during the civil rights movement. It’s a story about racism and the author’s struggle with racism while growing up. This book takes us through the author’s childhood, high school life, college life and even her civil movement involvement. Through this book, the author takes her audience/ readers through racism in pre-civil rights America. This book tells us that pre-civil rights movement era had a lot of racial prejudices and inequalities and injustices.The author takes the