After Elmira and Fred divorced, Anne took part-time domestic jobs to help her mother financially. She later discovered that her name had been recorded as Annie on her birth certificate, and she began to use that name instead.
Her parents, Elmira Williams and Fred Moody Sr., who were sharecroppers, named her Essie Mae. In the early 1960s, while a student at Tougaloo College, she worked with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).Īnne Moody was born on September 15, 1940, in Centreville, Mississippi. Anne Moody was a writer and civil rights activist best known for her memoir, Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968).
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