Anne Moody was an important character in the role of social reform for Africa Americans in Mississippi. Her will to change people and desire for a better life for African Americans was based on the problems and difficulties she faced when she was a child growing up in Centreville, Mississippi. The problems and discrimination that she encounters as a child are laid out in her book Coming of Age in Mississippi. These things are the …showed first 75 words of 1517 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1517 total…negative aspects of the community and much of Mississippi. It is when she finally does leave, and goes to college that she begins to realize that with the help of her other classmates they can make a difference and can try and change the way the blacks just sit there and take it. This begins her new life as a social reformer and activist for African Americans in Mississippi and all over the United States.