It was the most violent response to a sit-in in the 1960s in the U.S. and others, hitting them and pouring flour, salt, sugar and mustard on top of them. A mob attacked her, Joan Trumpauer and Tougaloo professor John Salter Jr. On May 28, 1963, she took part in the sit-in at Woolworth's in downtown Jackson. She then attended Tougaloo College, where her involvement grew deeper. While attending Natchez Junior College, she became involved with the civil rights movement. "That determination carried on in her work in the civil rights movement, gave her strength to stand up to things."īorn in 1940 in Wilkinson County, she attended segregated schools and worked to help her poor family. Ed King, the former chaplain of Tougaloo College. "She had determination," recalled the Rev. Anne Moody, who wrote the classic memoir, "Coming of Age in Mississippi," has died.įuneral services are incomplete at this time for Moody, who died at age 74 Thursday.
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