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lenarob's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
3.75
hatrireads's review against another edition
4.0
I can't believe I have never read this book. I graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in English and Journalism and a minor in Southern Studies. This should have been required reading! Published in the late 1960s, this memoir tells the honest story of a black girl growing up in a rural town in south Mississippi in the late 50s and early 60s Anne Moody's voice is authentic and true and heartbreaking. Only through a memoir like this, can we really see into a different world. Her words are still searing and important. I wonder how much has Mississippi and the world have really changed since then. Definitely not enough. I also think about what William Faulkner said "To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi." I highly recommend this book.
powisamy's review against another edition
4.0
I was reading this for a history class that I have tomorrow but I have to think that without that class I would have never picked this book up and that's a shame. It's a shame because Anne Moody is one of the voices who can teach us so much about what like was like growing up in the south in the 1940s and through the civil rights movement but it feels forgotten when it shouldn't be. This book is more important more now than it has ever been.
tofupup's review against another edition
4.0
This was a forthright memoir of Anne's youth, with no sugar coating and not a particularly hopeful ending.
kb_208's review against another edition
3.0
Had to read this for a history class. She gives a very vivid account of her experiences growing up poor and living in fear most of the time. The timeline starts while she is a young child and follows her through high school, college, and then her work with the civil rights movement. Usually in history classes you learn a brief macro-view of the experiences of blacks in American history, but this gives you a much more micro-view, which really enhances your knowledge of the horrible things that really happened during this time.
aspiringorakle's review against another edition
5.0
One can hardly blame her for her pessimism at the end of it all--suffering in respect to her family, the white and black community, and government, with almost no hope in sight. She loses her religion, her faith in God, as well. It is this tension that one can hardly hold against the great sufferer. No one should abandon God. But if anyone would have any warrant to abandon God, if He would forgive anyone of anything, He would forgive Anne Moody amidst her woes.
tristanpej's review against another edition
5.0
I mean the book is already a classic, nothing I can say except read it.