Coming of the Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

*1963-Natchez College
*Anne Moody found out she couldn't graduate early, but it really didn't matter to her because that meant she could stay on campus and participate in the movement.
*She was close with John Salter and he was in charge of the NAACP activities on campus.
*Anne, Memphis, and Pearlena agreed to be part of a movement that started with picketing at JC Pennys, then the three friends went to Woolworth's lunch counter to sit in on the white counter.
*Once people starting showing up the three friends started getting beaten. High school students came in and pulled them by their hair, slapped them, and pushed them up against the counter.
*Memphis was arrested because a guy started attacking him so then it was just the two girls. Then Joan Trumpaer (a white girl) sat down with them, followed by Lois Chaffee (white teacher), then John Salter, and then more and more people kept sitting down.
*After 3 hours of people pouring ketchup, mustard, salt, sugar, pies, malts, basically anything they could get their hands on all over the people, finally the manager tried to close but no one would leave. The whites wouldn't leave before the blacks did, and the blacks wouldn't leave at all.
*Finally a man from the college came in & saw what was going on, he dragged the students out after the police refused to. The police had been standing outside doing nothing at all the whole time.
*Once Anne got back she went to the hairdresser to get all the stuff out of her hair and even though there were people waiting they let her go first.
*In the end we find out that Anne's mother sent her $10 for bus fare & a letter asking to to please come home and not participate in the sit in, however Anne felt passionately about it and she knew she was he only person in her family who was willing do something like this.