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."
  

Declaration of Independence

The list of complaints begins with "He..."
1. Why do they repeat it?
Show more emphasis, they are talking about the King of England.

2. Why do they make it personal?
It is a very personal matter. People were driven away from where they came from to the United States to recieve the rights and respect that Americans do.

3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
The declaration clearly shows that freedom is what the people wanted. They would have done anything to earn rights.

4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
Everything is clearly stated and is all in the same form. It makes it easier to get the full message from the piece.

parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.


5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why?
"He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."

People were being contained by the same law that they were trying to escape. They came from England to American to escape that law, but ended up finding the same senario.