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...Mississippi as being a closed society. There was no toleration for any dissent of the racial norms, and yet by that time Anne Moody and others like her had already begun to crack it. By reading Coming of Age in Mississippi, it is apparent that it was actually the young people like Moody who sustained the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Moody writes that living in Mississippi was "where they knew, as I knew, the price you pay daily for being black" (Moody PG). In this tense and very interesting book, author Anne Moody describes to the reader a society that is unlike anything most of us have ever experienced. It is true that society has been struggling to overcome centuries of racism, racial conflicts and racial polarization and there is virtually no segment of society that is not affected by racial stereotypes, which are oversimplified or mistaken...