Coming Of Age In Mississippi

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began . Throughout her childhood she is a tmid , poor little girl who is afraid to even ask her mother questions about what is going on around her . Anne tells of their staple diet , beans and bread , which was just enough to keep her alive. I can not possibly imagine what it is like to be on the brink of starvation. Although a timid , shy , little girl , Anne does show a spark of intensity through her schoolwork . She is very competitive and driven to do well in school . This is the fuel which that will later feed her fire to participate in the "Movement" . This want for an education is also a rather new trait for black women of her time . She is already a sort of radical as a child and does not even know it .
As she grows older her mother begins a relationship with a black man from town named Raymond . She talks of her mother being pregnant and her realizing of how babies are brought into the world . Anne describes her mother's mood swings and what I see as emotional ...

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butchering of blacks by whites in the South . " I was fifteen years old when I began to hate people " , that is not only whites to which Anne is referring but also the blacks who let these acts of violence to continue happening .
During her junior year of high school Anne left home and went to live with her dad for the remainder of the school year , she and her mom had a falling out . That summer she went to New Orleans and worked in a chicken plant . She finished out her senior year while living with her dad . Although she had the highest GPA in her class she was not the valedictorian since she was the product of two schools . Within two days of graduation she arrives in New Orleans ...

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