She later earned an athletic scholarship to the two-year Natchez Junior College, and later received an academic scholarship to Tougaloo College, where she graduated in 1964. She studied hard and found the love of basketball, but even that did not come easy, once having to stand up to a harsh coach.
However, Moody stayed devoted and determined to make something out of her life. She often experienced rampant prejudice in her own life, witnessing one of her close cousins having to flee the area due to racism. Her childhood was difficult, coming to fear the depths of hate as seen in the murder of Emmett Till. While in the fourth grade, she found work to help provide for the family.
Her father left the family when Moody was just a little girl. Anne Moody was an author who wrote about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi, in her book “Coming of Age in Mississippi.” She was also greatly active in the Civil Rights Movement through the NAACP, CORE, and SNCC.īorn Essie Mae Moody on September 15, 1940, near the town of Centreville in Mississippi’s Wilkinson County, she was the eldest of several children.
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