Anne Moody was a brave woman who challenged her prejudiced society during the decades of the nineties. She endured poverty, fears, torching, police brutality, hangings, and violence to demonstrate that blacks deserve the same privileges and chances as whites, that segregation was not acceptable. Anne Moody first challenged her people when she was only in fifth grade. She went to a play with her mother and siblings, she discovered that she was not allowed to go inside the "white lobby, " Moody began questioning why this was so. She assumed: "...They were white, and their whiteness made them better then me. I now realized that not only were they better then me because they were white, but everything they owned and everything connected with them was better than …show more content…
Therefore, Anne worked for white people for exceptionally low wages doing household work for many hours after school had ended. She worked to help care for her poor family and to buy clothes for herself. Most kids didn't even go to college. They weren’t given the same chance as whites. During high school Moody was directly affected when a man named Emmet Till was killed for getting snooty with a white women, or so Moody was told. But, she soon uncovered out the truth. Emmet Till was actually killed for being involved in a group known as the NAACP. This was the first time Moody had heard of them, and it would soon play a key role in her life in succeeding years. Emmet Till's murder represented a meaningful change in Anne’s attitude regarding her society. It was in college when Moody became working in the Civil Rights Movement. After graduating from high school, Moody attended Natchez College for two years in which she was mainly shielded from the outside world. After Natchez, Anne went to Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi. Within her first semester at her new college, Moody had become a member of the