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Obstacles to Unity
Coming Of Age In Mississippi, Anne Moody's poignant autobiographical account of growing up black in Mississippi in the years surrounding the Civil Rights Movement, allows us to peer through a window into a world that no textbook could accurately represent. What we see forces us to discard any illusions of the Movement: that it was an effortless transition to improved race-relations, that it consisted of a unified Southern black front battling segregation and white oppression, and that the aims of the Movement were satisfied by its end in the 6os. The image of Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to the masses about his dream for the nation during the March on Washington rally at the Lincoln Memorial has come to symbolize the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement. Moody's firsthand experience paints a different picture, detailing the struggle and division that served as obstacles to the Movement and to the unity of the black community as a whole. The black South, as......

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