Instead of focusing on her years in the civil rights movement, Moody chose to start at the beginning-when she was four years old, the child of poor sharecroppers working for a white farmer. Moody, intimately involved in the civil rights movement in the first half of 1960s, created an unforgettable image of the inequities and violence that characterized southern society.
This startling depiction of what it was like to grow up a poor, southern African American captured the attention of Americans around the country, from all social classes and all backgrounds. Into this confusion, in 1968, Moody published her autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi. The civil rights movement itself was transforming, turning away from the nonviolence of Martin Luther King to a more militant stance epitomized by Malcolm X. Significant anti-discrimination legislation had been passed, but in the view of many civil rights activists, society had not changed enough. By the late 1960s, the civil rights movement had seen enormous successes along with tragic losses.
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