Coming of age in Mississippi

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Part one: childhood -- Part two: high school -- Part three: college -- Part four: the movement.
Presents the personal story of a young African-American woman growing up in 1940s and 1950s Mississippi.

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Highly recommended submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on August 26, 2013, 1:14pm An outstanding autobiography of a young African American girl growing up in the segregated deep South, and her journey to action in the Civil Rights Movement.

No matter how much you know of the general disaster that was the Jim Crow South, there is nothing like seeing it through the eyes of someone who was born into it, realized it, faced it, struggled against it, and worked to make a difference. If you haven't read something like this, I strongly recommend you add this to your reading list. It isn't ancient history -- it is OUR history (and I'm a White woman).

I realized most of the way through the book that it didn't become a "can't put it down" page-turner for me until Anne went to college. But then it occurred to me why that was: early in her life, Anne is reporting what happened to her, but by late high school and college, she was making choices about her life. And that's the kind of thing that gets me going!