Anne Moody (September 15, 1940 – February 5, 2015) was an American author who wrote about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi, and her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement through the NAACP, CORE and SNCC.

[2] After her parents split up when she was five or six years old,[1] she grew up with her mother, Elmira aka Toosweet, in Centreville, Mississippi, while her father, Diddly, lived with his new wife, Emma,[1] in nearby Woodville.

She became involved with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

After graduation, Moody became a full-time worker in the civil rights movement, participating in a variety of different protests such as marches and sit-ins.

[7] Anne Moody was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for attempting to protest inside of a post office with 13 others, including Joan Trumpauer, Doris Erskine, Jeanette King, and Lois Chaffee.

Upon her return, she wrote a sequel to her autobiography, entitled Farewell to Too Sweet, which covered her life from 1974 to 1984, and in a 1985 interview with Debra Spencer she spoke of writing other books of memoirs,[8] all of which remain unpublished.

[11] Moody's autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968), was acclaimed by Senator Edward Kennedy for its "powerful and moving" portrayal of life[12] for a young African American before and during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Her perspective on life in rural Mississippi reveals the small and large violent acts encountered regularly by numerous African American southerners, especially women.