![]() Moody begins working in Baton Rouge and New Orleans over the summers as a teenager.Īfter a fight with Raymond, Moody leaves home at age 17. Moody also witnesses the death of an entire family when Klansmen set the house on fire. Burke, her employer, makes comments about keeping black people in their place. After Emmett Till’s murder, Moody becomes very aware of the differences when Mrs. Moody often wonders what makes white people different from black people, but Mama does not want to talk about it. ![]() Mama then meets her second husband, Raymond, who builds a house on land owned by his family. Moody starts working at age 9 to help her family while also going to school. After her parents separate, Moody’s mother becomes a single parent and rears Moody and her siblings by herself for several years. Born in rural Mississippi, Moody and her family live as sharecroppers on a white-owned plantation. ![]()
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