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THE CAMPUS ECHO
Monday, March 31, 1969
COMING OF AGE REVIEWED
Students assemble in St. Joseph’s Church after rally to Five Points.
-Duke Afro-
By Dial Press
Coming of Age in Mississippi
by Anne Moody is an eloquent
autobiography in the tradition
of Manchild in the Promised
Land and Down These Mean
Streets. It is a unique document,
although the hardships endured
by the rural Negro have been
chronicled by historians, sociol
ogists, and novelists, rarely, and
perhaps not at all in recent
times, has there been a first-
p>erson account of the events and
conditions which formed the
life of a black girl in the deep
South. I 1
Miss Moody’s story is the
faithful account of a black girl
who grew up in Centerville,
Mississippi, in the midst of
fear, hunger, intimidation and
degradation. Miss Moody relates
what it’s like to live for months
on a diet of beans and com
bread, to go to work at the age
of nine to help support your
family, to keep silent when
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relative, to wonder why white
people are supposed to be better
than you and why everything
they have is better than what
you have. In short, what it is
like to be born and raised in
perhaps the most segregated
state in the nation.
Through great inner strength
and moral determination Miss
Moody became an honor student
in high school and worked sum
mers to save money so that she
could eventually attend college.
It was never easy and the bal
ance between money on hand
and money needed was never
equal.
Anne Moody’s story is also
the record of her civil rights
experiences in Mississippi the
summers of 1962 and 1963, a
time marked by the constant
fear of violence and the con
tinuing struggle to get money
to carry on the Movement.
Because of her work as a
civil rights organizer and be
cause she has had the courage
to set down what she knows
about life in the South, Annef
Moody can never go home again.
Born in Wilkinson County,
Mississippi, in 1940, Anne Moody
spent her early childhood on a
plantation where her parents
were sharecroppers and then
moved to a small nearby town.
She attended Natchez Junior
College in Natchez, Mississippi,
and graduated in 1964 from
Tougaloo College near Jackson,
Mississippi. Miss Moody has
worked for CORE, traveling and
speaking all over the nation.
Most recently she was coordi
nator of the civil rights training
project of the School of Indus
trial and Labor Relations at
Cornell University. She is mar
ried and lives in New York
City. Coming of Age in Missis-
t sippi is Anne Moody’s first
• book.
(Continued from Page 1 )
bers in planning an African and
Afro-American Studies Program.
The president of NCC’s Stu
dent Government Association,
Alfred Whitesides, welcomed the
Duke students“to the black part
of town with (their) sisters and
brothers.”
The group chanted several
freedom songs and “the revolu
tion has come; time to pick up
your guns.”
From Five Points, the group
marched down Main Street to
St. Joseph’s Church.
North Carolina College, Duke
University, Durham Business
College, Merrick-Moore, Hill
side, Durham High, Southern,
Northern, United Organization
for Community Development
and the Black Solidarity Com
mittee were all represented at
the meeting.
Howard Clement of the Black
Solidarity Committee said,
“What we are going to show
Duke and Durham is that we
are going to march together and
our afraid xiays are over.”
“We have to stick together
or all of us will have to die.
We can’t be one night standers,
clap hands, go home and forget
about tomorrow,” said Ben Ruf
fin of the United Organization
for Community Improvement.
Thomas Rainey, a history pro
fessor at Duke, praised the black
students, called himself an in-,
structor in exile and quoted a
civil rights song: “It ain’t nice
to block the doorways, it ain’t
nice to go to jail; there are
other ways to do it, but the
nice ways always fail.”
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C. B. Claiborne speaking for
the Duke students said, “If
black students cannot participate
meaningfully in all facets of
the African Afro-American
Studies Program, then it has
no meaning for us.”
He also said that they were
left with three alternatives: “To
remain here and completely dis
avow ourselves from this uni
versity; destroy the place, with
draw from Duke and refuse to
legitimize an illegitimate sys
tem.”
“We have choseh the latter
and will continue our education
at an institution which will
speak to the needs of students,
Malcolm X Liberation Univer
sity.”
Howard F^iller, training di
rector of the Foundation for
Commimity Development, told
the crowd in St. Joseph’s Church
that “Durham may not be open
tomorrow; we might close it.”
Fvdler also stated that they
will try to “derecruit” any
students who look like they
will be coming to Duke. “Duke
wants to be a lily white school
and we will do what we can to
make it lily white,” said Fuller.
He stated in closing that “We
will have no peace, no where
until black students start getting
what they have got to have. If
there is no struggle, there is no
progress.”
A second march was held
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March 11 which ended in vio
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men clubbing students and al
legedly damaging a car in which
NCC students were riding.
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