battleground. It was fighting an idelogical war in southeast

Asia, while at home it was battling civil rights conflicts

which had been simmering just beneath the surface for over a

hundred years. In what could only be explained as historical

irony, the U.S. military was fighting for human rights for

the South Vietnamese while denying civil rights to its

citizens whose only "crime" was that their skin was black.

The civil rights movement not only defined America, but also

the lives of the black men and women who had long known

oppression, and were frutrated by the feeble attempts to

combat it. Anne Moody's autobiography, Coming of Age in

Mississippi, explored the impact of the civil rights

movement on her life and perspective. We can find three

events in Moody's as turning points in her life; her high-

school days, her college experiences, and finally, the

As Moody recalled her childhood, she ackno

American female living under the oppressive daily shadow of

she always knew she would never be like everybody else. Her

In conclusion we can say that Coming of Age in

question whether the nonviolent approach was relevant. The

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