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Coming of Age in Mississippi is the autobiography of an African American woman growing up in a racist south in the mid 1900s. It is the story of Anne Moody's struggle to deal with the race the racist society she is born into and her fight for freedom for herself ....

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.... of meals of beans and bread and poor clothes. As a child she is not immediately too aware of the difference in skin color between the whites and the blacks. She and her sister were friends with two white children across the street and this led to one of her first experiences in realizing her black skin made her appear inferior to the whites. Anne and her sister accidentally followed their white friends into the white section of th4e movie theatre, not realizing they were not permitted and their mother immediately dragged them out. It was then that she realized "that not only were they better than me because they were white, but everything they ....