. 307). She stated “I never really think of going to a movie when I’m in Mississippi.” According to Anne Moody, “there was always so much work, so many problems, and so many threats that I hardly ever thought of anything except how to best get the job done and survive day to day.” (Moody, p. 308). Although Anne Moody eventually became disenchanted with certain aspects of the Civil Rights Movement, she never lost sight of the movement and continued her work for equality in the South.Anne Moody was an organizer as well as a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, in that, she was dedicated to getting African Americans involved in voting and participating in the fight for their basic inalienable rights. She was a leader in a way that people could look at her life and see that it is possible to rise above your circumstances, and look beyond what you see. Yes, she had an impoverished childhood, and struggled against the pervasive racism in the South, but that never stopped her from fighting for her rights and the rights of all African-Americans.Fannie Lou HamerFannie Lou Hamer rose to national prominence as a civil rights activists in the 1960’s. She was the youngest of twenty children born to her sharecropping parents, and she also worked beginning at the age of nine in the fields. Ms. Hamer was hit with the blunt force of living in segregated Mississippi, and I think that because of her circumstances, as she has been quoted saying “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Like many blacks living in Mississippi, Fannie Lou Hamer was poor and had little education. Watching her parent’s struggle in the racist system of the South, she came to the realization at an early age that something was wrong in Mississippi. She grew up determined to change things, and was willing to lose her life for freedom and equality. (Crawford, Rouse and Woods, p. 28). In the summer of 1962, ...
