Warning: the language is raw and authentic as the story. You will NOT regret this selection.Ī must read for those who appreciate raw truth I could listen to her all day and never get tired. Her voice is smooth and pleasant and displays a brilliant full spectrum of emotions. She reads it like it's her own personal story. The narrator is fantastic - I cannot praise her enough.

The entire story is alive - pulling you in, triggering emotions you didn't even know you had, forcing you to experience an ugly part of American history, and opening your eyes to the true, dirty reality of racism.

I couldn't take my headphones off! I even turned off my phone, so I wouldn't be disturbed. This is one of the best credits I've ever spent. There were many times during this story when I froze in place, put my hand over my mouth, and felt my eyes well with tears.but don't mistake it for some sort of a 'sappy sob story.' Through the NAACP and later through CORE and SNCC she has first-hand experience of 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.Ī 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.Ī Gripping, Visceral Account of 1960's Realityĭid you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry? 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.Īn all-A student whose dream of going to college is realized when she wins a basketball scholarship, she finally dares to join the NAACP in her junior year. Before then, she had 'known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. 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.

Coming of age in mississippi