e between her and whites was the color of her skin and that she could be killed just for being black. She stated that it was then that she begun to hate people. She hated the white people for killing Emmitt Till and she hated the black people for letting it happen and not doing anything about it. She later learned that he was killed for being involved in the NAACP. She could not understand how blacks seemed so eager to just accept whatever happened to them and realized that she would never just accept things. In college, Anne Moody joined the NAACP. It was here, fueled by her attitude toward her society, that she began her involvement in the civil rights movement. She knew it was very dangerous for her and for her family to join but she thought about the murders and the beatings and joined anyway. She also became involved with the SNCC through a girl living in her dormitory. She spent the next few years deeply involved in voter registration drives for blacks. She went through various counties throughout Mississippi encouraging blacks to register for their constitutional right to vote. Many blacks were frightened to register, some because they were just so eager to leave things as they were, and some because they didn't fully understand the importance of voting rights in this country. Many barriers were placed on the voting laws aimed at keeping the election away from minorities, including a poll tax and an exam that could not be passed by anyone illiterate or blind. Lawmakers were powerless to do anything to stop this at the time. It would still be years before the social conscious toward race would shift. In her senior year in college, Moody was involved in her first sit-in, when she went to the white section of the local bus station and refused to leave. After that, the head of the NAACP activities at her college asked her, to be the spokesman for a team that would sit in at a Woolworth's lunch counter, which was segrega...
