Anne Moody | Activist and memoirist, 74
Anne Moody, 74, whose memoir Coming of Age in Mississippi gave a wrenching account of growing up poor in the segregated South and facing violence as a civil rights activist, died Thursday at her home in the small town Gloster, Miss. She had dementia the last several years and stopped eating two days before she died in her sleep, her sister, Adline Moody, said Saturday.
Anne Moody, 74, whose memoir
Coming of Age in Mississippi
gave a wrenching account of growing up poor in the segregated South and facing violence as a civil rights activist, died Thursday at her home in the small town Gloster, Miss. She had dementia the last several years and stopped eating two days before she died in her sleep, her sister, Adline Moody, said Saturday.
On May 28, 1963, Ms. Moody was among the students from historically black Tougaloo College who staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Jackson, Miss. A white mob attacked the integrated group of peaceful students, dousing them with ketchup, mustard, and sugar and beating one of the men.
The Jackson sit-in occurred more than three years after a more famous one in Greensboro, N.C. The one in Jackson happened just after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that legalized sit-ins. - AP