Coming of Age in Mississippi

--> Anne Moody-Autobiography

• 1963-NAACP boy-cots
• Anne goes door to door for NAACP which is ran by John Salter
• She is also spokeswoman for a group that did sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter with two others
• They could possibly go to jail for doing so
  
• The waitress told them that blacks are served in the back, but the three refused to move
• The white people in the restaurant started to leave because of the blacks
• Newsmen came in-soon whites followed
• They tired to put ropes around the Negro's necks
• The women prayed, and all hell broke loose
• One white man beat up Anne's friend Memphis
• Memphis was arrested for being accused as the attacker
• Crowds chanted "communists"
• One old man told the white boys to remove the blacks
• White men carried Joan and Annie; both escaped their grips and crawled back to the counter
• A college faculty member of Tougaloo (where blacks went) sat down with them
• Now it was 2 whites & 2 blacks sitting at the counter
• The whites threw mustard, ketchup, and other things at them
• John came and sat with them, he got hit in the jaw with a brass knuckle and salt poured on his wound
• One end of the counter, Lois & Pearlena were joined by George Raymond, worked for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) & also a black high schooler
• The mob sprayed them with paint and wrote nigger on the high-schooler's back
• Finally the store owner closed down the store because of all the damage it was causing
• About 90 police men watched this happen, police wouldn't even escort the black protesters out
• As they walked out, police allowed people to throw anything at them
• Reverend King picked them up and took them back to the NAACP office
• Before they returned, Anne wanted to have her hair washed, they went to a hair dresser & she gladly cleaned Anne's hair for her
• The hair dresser accepted her before 3 other white ladies, who were very kind and knew Anne needed help
• At the church that night, people honored and applauded the ones who did the sit-in
• It was just the beginning- "We shall overcome."