I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Farmer, who founded CORE in 1942, conveys the struggle that he and other civil rights leaders went through to achieve their important goals. Rent Coming of Age in Mississippi 1st edition (978-0440314882) today, or search our site for other textbooks by Anne Moody.

Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights (1985) is James Farmer's award-winning contribution to literature of the civil rights movement. When ten-year-old Billy accidentally kills a white teenager, he is placed on trial in a courtroom that shows the degree of racism and injustice prevalent in the South at that time. Coming of Age in Mississippi, an autobiography written by Anne Moody, tells the perspective of growing up black in the rural south.

It is widely considered to be one of his finest works.Īlbert French's novel Billy (1995) takes place in rural Mississippi in the 1930s. She has written an autobiographical work depicting life in Mississippi and the struggles of black people in the South. Richard Wright's autobiography Black Boy (1945) uses fictional and novelistic techniques to describe Wright's youth in Mississippi and Tennessee. Death: Four Stories (1975) is Moody's only other published work.

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