Anne Moody, Mississippi civil rights activist, dies at 74

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Anne Moody, Mississippi civil rights activist, dies at 74
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press | February 7, 2015 | Updated: February 7, 2015 5:47pm


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Photo By Fred Blackwell/AP

FILE-This is a May 28, 1963, file photograph of a sit-in demonstration at a
Woolworth's lunch counter in Jackson, Miss., where whites poured sugar, ketchup
and mustard over heads of the demonstrators. Seated at the counter, from left,
are John Salter, Joan Trumpauer and Anne Moody. Moody, whose memoir “Coming
of Age in Mississippi” gave a wrenching account of growing up poor in the
segregated South and facing violence as a civil rights activist, died Thursday, Feb.
5, 2015, at her home in the small town Gloster, Mississippi. She was 74.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Anne Moody, whose memoir "Coming of Age in Mississippi" gave a wrenching account of growing up poor in the segregated South and facing violence as a civil rights activist, died Thursday at her home in the small town Gloster, Mississippi. She was 74.

Moody had dementia the past several years and stopped eating two days before she died in her sleep, her sister, Adline Moody, told The Associated Press on Saturday.

On May 28, 1963, Anne Moody was among the students from historically black Tougaloo College who staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. A white mob attacked the integrated group of peaceful students, dousing them with ketchup, mustard and sugar and beating one of the men.

A photograph from the sit-in shows Moody sitting stoically at the five-and-dime counter with food on her head. Moody's eyes are downcast as a man pours more food on one of her fellow students, Joan Trumpauer.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Anne-Moody-Mississippi-civil-rights-activist-6068695.php

[shenmue]

1. Rest in peace

[BumRushDaShow]

2. R.I.P.

And thank you for your sacrifice so we in the black community could try to finally be accepted as human beings. The iconic photo of you and your co-protestors, needs to continue to be propagated far and wide as it doesn't take much for amnesia to set in. The hoodlums depicted in that photo who attacked and harassed peaceful people wishing only to purchase a meal, still exist today, and wouldn't hesitate to roll back the clock. The progeny of such hooligans may even reside in elected office today, and in fact include ilk like the Paul family, who would roll back any type of public accommodation laws in a heartbeat.

[Cha]

3. Rest In Peace, Anne Moody~ And, Thank you~

Mahalo Judi Lynn~

[mountain grammy]

4. A courageous American woman has passed.

Rest in peace, Anne Moody.