'She said, 'Who is Anne Moody?' That broke my heart. 'I spoke to a woman in her 40s who grew up in this area,' Barnes said. He said he also gives away copies of the book to people who live in southwestern Mississippi. He said some inmates and have been reading and discussing 'Coming of Age in Mississippi' as part of a book group. She was 74.īarnes does volunteer work for the Anne Moody History Project, which is based at the privately run prison where he works, Wilkinson County Correctional Facility.

She returned to Mississippi in the mid-1990s but never felt at ease in the state, said one of her sisters, Adline Moody.Īnne Moody had dementia before she died at home in Gloster, Mississippi, in 2015. One of the praying students was pulled violently from his seat.Įvers was assassinated outside his Jackson home two weeks after the sit-in.Īfter Moody graduated from college in 1964, she moved to New York, where she wrote her book. She wrote that after she and two other black students started praying at the counter, one white man slapped her and another threw her against an adjoining counter. Bloom, Coming of Age in the Segregated South: Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Childhoods, Black and White, in Home Ground: Southern Autobiography, ed. White high school students, egged on by some adults, dumped ketchup and mustard on the heads of Moody and the other protesters. In 1975, Moody published a collection of four short stories, entitled Mr. They had worked with Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers to prepare for the protest. On May 28, 1963, Moody was part of an integrated group of students from historically black Tougaloo College who staged a peaceful sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi.

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