A new edition of the classic memoir describes growing up poor and black in the rural South during the turbulent pre-civil rights era and of her firsthand participation on the front lines of the battle for racial equality. Reprint.[...]
Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story -- the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown up black in Mississippi in the forties an fifties -- and to have survived with pride [...]