Her family begged her to stop her activities, telling her she was trying to get every Negro in her town murdered. She participated in the first lunch counter sit-ins in Jackson, and she also participated in voter registration efforts. Nevertheless, after graduation she attended a black college and began participating in civil rights organizing activities. But now there was a new fear known to me-the fear of being killed just because I was black." "But I didn't know what one had to do or not do as a Negro not to be killed."In high school she learned it was dangerous to even ask what the NAACP was.
"Before Emmet Till's murder, I had known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. A few weeks before she entered high school, Emmet Till was murdered a few towns down the road. Anne Moody was born into poverty in rural Wilkinson County Mississippi in 1940. This is an unforgettable and powerful autobiography of growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi.
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