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- NAME: Anne Moody
- OCCUPATION: Civil Rights Activist, Journalist, Author
- BIRTH DATE: September 15, 1940 (Age: 72)
- EDUCATION: Natchez Junior College, Tougaloo College
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Centerville, Mississippi
- ZODIAC SIGN: Virgo
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Anne Moody is an African-American author whose writings about her personal and political struggles during the American Civil Rights Movement became classic.
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Anne Moody is an African-American author who very involved in the American Civil Rights Movement. After graduating college, she became a full-time activist, participating in a Woolworth's lunchcounter sit-in and protests in the 1960s. Becoming disenchanted with aspects of the movement, she focused on writing what became her now-famous autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi.
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