She learned her cousin got run out of town for messing around with a white girl right after she returned home from Baton Rouge. It was one thing to play ball among people you knew but I didn’t like playing outsiders.”īut she went back to basketball when she was 14 and angry. Willis asked me to come back to the team,” she wrote in the memoir. Her coach expected a lot out of her because of that.Īnd her first game was a disaster and embarrassed her, so she quit. Moody started playing basketball because her grades were good and basketball was the only extracurricular offered to sixth graders. Her relationship with basketball isn’t really a love story, but playing the game eventually led her (through a basketball scholarship to Natchez Junior College) to Tougaloo College, where she joined CORE, NAACP and SNCC and did civil rights work. Moody wrote about her time playing the game in her memoir “ Coming of Age in Mississippi.” In it, she talks about growing up in Mississippi in the 1940s and 50s and her participation in the movement for basic rights. She was a writer, activist and worked full-time in the civil rights movement, including Freedom Summer. That’s her, on the right, at Woolworth's sit-in in Jackson, Mississippi. Today we’re talking about Anne Moody: an activist who played basketball.Įven if you don’t know Moody by name, I’m almost certain you’ve seen this photo before.
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