Question

Regarding Anne Moody's autobiography answer the following questions:

Why didn’t more southern blacks join the movement?

2. Why did Anne Moody become a civil rights activist?  Was it a case of nature or nurture?

3. What were Anne Moody’s frustrations with the civil rights movement?  Why had she become disillusioned by 1963?

4. How has Anne Moody’s autobiography added to your understanding of the history of race relations in the South during the 1940s and 1950s as well as the civil rights movement’s efforts to improved conditions?  Be specific.

Answer 1

1.

More southern blacks did not join Anne blacks because they were afraid of change.

2.

Anne mood became a civil right activist because she faced discrimination and social segregation in the society just because of her skin color and racial background.

It is a case of nurture.

3.

She was frustrated because she realized that most of her sittings and rallies were failure and in national scale there was no progress in racial equality.

She became disillusioned by 1963 because results of her efforts was not according to her expectations.

4.

Autobiography of Anne moody added in-depth knowledge of circumstances and factors of that time in South during 1940s and1950s. Racial discrimination, segregation, social biases, and injustice was present in the society at that time that was one of the major fector of civil right movement. Due to civil right movement condition of blacks was starts improving.