“The fear of being killed just because I was black ... was the worst of my fears.”
Moody chronicles her life growing up in the Deep South at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement—one of the few works that details rural Black life during that time.
Author: Anne Moody
Title: Coming of Age in Mississippi: An Autobiography
Edition: First Edition, third printing
Published: New York: The Dial Press, 1969
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 348p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket (price-clipped) with edge wear, light chipping, and mild rubbing to surfaces—in dust jacket cover. Boards and spine very clean with crushing at spine ends. Binding solid and square. Pages toned. Light markings on front free end-paper and half-title page. Light foxing on edges.
Comments: Desirable copy
