Friday, October 27, 2017

A Prayer for Clarity and Enthusiasm in Drug Prevention

Invocation for Red Ribbon Week Drug Awareness program held Friday, October 27, 2017, at Wilkinson County Correctional Facility (WCCF).

By Chaplain Roscoe Barnes III, Ph.D.
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Good morning.

I want to begin with a verse of Scripture.

In Habakkuk 2:2, we have these words:

“And the LORD answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.” (English Standard Version)

This text obviously refers to the revelation of God and his message to his people. But the ideas presented are also relevant and applicable to what we’re doing here today.

The prophet was instructed to write the vision and make it plain so that the messenger would catch fire, so to speak, and spread it to others. In other words, you’ve been given an important mission. You have an important message. Now take it to the next level. Be clear and be persistent. That is our prayer.

Heavenly Father, Lord God Most High:

We are on a mission to make a difference. We have been given the honorable task of bringing awareness to the problem of drugs. It is a problem in homes, in prisons, in communities, and in schools. We ask that you would help us in our efforts to share an important message that shines a light on the dangers of drugs, but also on the solution.

We ask, Oh Lord, that you would help us to be crystal clear in delivering our message. Help us to take what we learn today and share it with those who need it the most. Help us to take this message about drugs to the next level. Let us catch on fire with an enthusiasm that is both contagious and unstoppable. Help us to make a difference.

Let it be. 

In your name, we pray.

Amen.
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ROSCOE BARNES III is a writer, chaplain, historian, and former newspaper reporter. He is the author of more than a dozen books and Gospel tracts. For more information about his work and history, see his Personal Profile here or visit his website: http://www.roscoebarnes.net. Connect with him on Twitter (@roscoebarnes3) or by email: roscoebarnes3@yahoo.com.

Friday, October 20, 2017

Prepare Yourselves for a Brighter Future

Closing remarks for graduation ceremony for Moral Recognation Therapy (MRT) class on Friday, October 20, 2017, at Wilkinson County Correctional Facility (WCCF)

By Chaplain Roscoe Barnes III, Ph.D.
Copyright (c) 2017


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Good morning.

On behalf of Deputy Warden of Programs Tonya Toomey, I want to congratulate each and every one of you for this fine achievement. You should all be proud of yourselves for what you have accomplished.

When I see you working and striving for success, I’m reminded of a story I heard about a country boy in Kentucky. He grew up in poverty and had few options but many limitations to having a good life. Even so, he spent his time reading, writing, and learning. He didn’t have the opportunities that some people had, but he had determination. He didn’t have much money, but he had dreams.

And one day someone asked him why he spent so much time hitting the books, and he replied, “I will prepare myself and someday my chance will come.”

Do you know who that little boy grew up to be? He became a lawyer and later, President Abraham Lincoln.

He prepared himself and his opportunity came. In completing this course, you have prepared yourselves for a better life. And I can assure you, your chance will come. So as you move forward, I want to encourage you to keep studying, keep learning and keep growing. Take a few more courses. Earn another degree. Read another book. For in doing so, you are paving the way for success and great opportunities. Keep up the good work. 

God bless you!

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ROSCOE BARNES III is a writer, chaplain, historian, and former newspaper reporter. He is the author of more than a dozen books and Gospel tracts. For more information about his work and history, see his Personal Profile here or visit his website: http://www.roscoebarnes.net. Connect with him on Twitter (@roscoebarnes3) or by email: roscoebarnes3@yahoo.com.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Repost: Story of Anne Moody Day Celebration goes national

Thanks to the Associated Press, the story appears in The Washington Post and other major newspapers

#AnneMoody

Note: This news was first shared on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, at which time I shared a link to the story on The Washington Post website. Unfortunately, after sharing the link, I checked back a few days later and found the link to be dead -- with no sign of the story. For this reason, I'm posting the story here with the announcement of it appearing in the Post. Yes, it's the same Associated Press story that appeared in papers throughout the country, but I want readers to know that it did indeed appear in The Washington Post. -- Roscoe Barnes III, Chairman, Anne Moody History Project

Dead link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/mississippi-hometown-honors-author-of-civil-rights-memoir/2017/09/16/5ee8739a-9ae0-11e7-af6a-6555caaeb8dc_story.html?utm_term=.47af7f4b836b


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FILE – In this May 28, 1963 file photograph, a group of white people pour sugar, ketchup and mustard over the heads of Tougaloo College student demonstrators at a sit-in demonstration at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in downtown Jackson, Miss. Seated at the counter, from left, are Tougaloo College professor John Salter,and students Joan Trumpauer and Anne Moody. Anne Moody, a civil rights activist who wrote about challenging segregation in the South is being honored in her hometown, two years after her death. (Fred Blackwell/The Clarion-Ledger via AP) (Associated Press)

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Mississippi hometown honors author of 
civil rights memoir


By Emily Wagster Pettus | AP September 16

JACKSON, Miss. — A civil rights activist who wrote about challenging segregation in the South was honored in her hometown, two years after her death.

About 70 people gathered Friday in the southwestern Mississippi town of Centreville — population 1,680 — to unveil a sign for the newly renamed Anne Moody Street. Moody was born in Centreville on Sept. 15, 1940.

Her memoir, “Coming of Age in Mississippi,” was published in 1968 and is required reading in some schools. It recounts her early life in a poor family and her participation in civil rights activities that put her in danger, including efforts to register black voters.

Roscoe Barnes III, who is chaplain at a prison near Centreville, helped organize the Anne Moody Day commemoration, held on what would have been her 77th birthday. He said her son, Sasha Straus, attended, as did some of her siblings and cousins.

“Here’s a woman who literally put her life on the line in the fight for freedom and justice,” Barnes told The Associated Press. “We’re here because she was there. She survived threats, beatings, incarcerations.”

On May 28, 1963, Moody was part of an integrated group of students from historically black Tougaloo College who staged a peaceful sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi. They had worked with Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers to prepare for the protest.

White high school students, egged on by some adults, dumped ketchup and mustard on the heads of Moody and the other protesters. She wrote that after she and two other black students started praying at the counter, one white man slapped her and another threw her against an adjoining counter. One of the praying students was pulled violently from his seat.

Evers was assassinated outside his Jackson home two weeks after the sit-in.

After Moody graduated from college in 1964, she moved to New York, where she wrote her book. She returned to Mississippi in the mid-1990s but never felt at ease in the state, said one of her sisters, Adline Moody.

Anne Moody had dementia before she died at home in Gloster, Mississippi, in 2015. She was 74.

Barnes does volunteer work for the Anne Moody History Project, which is based at the privately run prison where he works, Wilkinson County Correctional Facility. He said some inmates and have been reading and discussing “Coming of Age in Mississippi” as part of a book group. He said he also gives away copies of the book to people who live in southwestern Mississippi.

“I spoke to a woman in her 40s who grew up in this area,” Barnes said. “She said, ‘Who is Anne Moody?’ That broke my heart.”
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For more information: 
See the Anne Moody page here.
Questions about the Anne Moody History Project may be directed to Roscoe Barnes III via email at doctorbarnes3@gmail.com or roscoebarnes3@yahoo.com For updates on Anne Moody history and the on-going work of this community service project, simply follow this blog or follow AMHP on Twitter (@AnneMoodyHP). #ComingOfAgeinMississippi

Barnes featured in Moody story

Gettysburg Times runs story about Anne Moody Day event

#AnneMoody

Gettysburg Times (Gettysburg, Pa.) is one of many papers to share the news about the historic Anne Moody Day Celebration held on Sept. 15, 2017, in Centreville, Miss. I once lived in Gettysburg, where I attended the Lutheran Theological Seminary (now called United Lutheran Seminary). It was during this time, in the early 1990s, that I also worked as a correspondent for Gettysburg Times. I’m grateful to the Times editor for running this piece.
 – Roscoe Barnes III, Chairman, Anne Moody History Project.


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Gettysburg Times, Tuesday, October 17, 2017, page A3
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For more information: 
See the Anne Moody page here.
Questions about the Anne Moody History Project may be directed to Roscoe Barnes III via email at doctorbarnes3@gmail.com or roscoebarnes3@yahoo.com For updates on Anne Moody history and the on-going work of this community service project, simply follow this blog or follow AMHP on Twitter (@AnneMoodyHP). #ComingOfAgeinMississippi

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Rare audio recording of Anne Moody

The 1969 interview, conducted by Commissioner William H. Booth of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, sheds light on stories in her famous book

By Roscoe Barnes III
Chairman, Anne Moody History Project
Copyright© 2017

#AnneMoody

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Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, was the day I wanted to scream, “Eureka!”

The reason? I found an audio recording of civil rights pioneer Anne Moody, author of Coming of Age in Mississippi. And it's nearly 30 minutes in length.

I was using Google to search for an article in The New York Times when I stumbled across a link for a 1969 audio recording of Moody. When I saw it, I felt a sense of nervousness and excitement because I didn’t know that the recording existed. I had previously searched for both audio and video recordings of her and had only found a short video clip of her at the Woolworth sit-in in 1963, but there was no sound. No recording of her voice. I had read her book, learned of her speaking ability, and spoken with a number of her family members, but I had not heard her voice. What did she sound like?

When I found this recording, I found an important piece of history, a significant link to our past. It was, as scholars have put it, a real treasure. And it seemed to fall from heaven. It was exactly what I needed.

The recorded interview is conducted by Commissioner William H. Booth of the New York City Commission on Human Rights. It is presented online courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection. The interview is part of the series, “The Black Man in America,” which, according to Booth, is “devoted to examining the history and life of African Americans and the contributions they have made -- and are making -- to the material, cultural and spiritual wealth of this county.”

In 1969, the time of the recording, Moody was 28 years of age and married to Austin Straus, a young Jewish poet. They were living in New York. Her book, Coming of Age in Mississippi, was published a year earlier by Dial Press. Booth notes that the book had won “wide acclaim.”

Angie Creech Green, a retired English teacher, listened to the recording and said she was impressed with the former civil rights worker: “She is so articulate and holds her ground with the interviewer.”

Moody’s sister, Frances Jefferson, was touched by the recording. After listening, she offered a word of gratitude.

“Thank you so much,” she said. “It’s lovely to hear my sister’s voice.”

Moody grew up in the segregated south where she faced racism and bigotry while trying to overcome poverty. She was born in 1940 in the small rural town of Centreville, Miss. She was raised by parents who worked as sharecroppers in Wilkinson County in southwest Mississippi. In the interview, Moody “shares her views on prejudice, and her eventual realization that the issues she has confronted are in fact prevalent in many other parts of America and the world,” according to the WYNC website.

The interview opens with Booth asking Moody about her book being compared with Manchild in the Promised Land (1965), a novel by Claude Brown, and Down These Mean Streets (1967) by Piri Thomas.

Moody replies by stating: “I would say any book … primarily written by a Negro and concerns his struggle… his struggle to exist, can be compared to Manchild … [It] can certainly be compared to the life of any Negro in America, I would say. In a certain way… we’re all in same bag.”

Moody notes that her “book is a little different … because life in the south, life in the rural south, is much different from life in the ghetto.”

Throughout the interview, Moody recounts some of the stories narrated in her book. She also elaborates on some of the sensitive stories that are now well-known from her book, including the hatred she felt towards blacks for not standing up to racism, and the hatred she felt towards whites for terrorizing and killing people of color. She mentions Emmett Till, who was 14 when he was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi. She also talks about the impact of poverty, and how she often went hungry.

When asked about her life growing up in the south, Moody said the thing that stood out for her was “being hungry most of the time” and waiting for her mother to come out of the field. She said she was also lonely.

I invite you to take a moment and listen to this piece of history. Discover Anne Moody. Hear her voice. Feel her passion. Begin right here.

Reference:
Website: http://www.wnyc.org/story/anne-moody
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For more information: 
See the Anne Moody page here.
Questions about the Anne Moody History Project may be directed to Roscoe Barnes III via email at doctorbarnes3@gmail.com or roscoebarnes3@yahoo.com For updates on Anne Moody history and the on-going work of this community service project, simply follow this blog or follow AMHP on Twitter (@AnneMoodyHP). #ComingOfAgeinMississippi

Friday, October 6, 2017

Letter of Thanks to Our Local Community

Showing Gratitude for the Support of the Anne Moody Day Celebration

#AnneMoody

On Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, the community of Centreville and the citizens of Amite and Wilkinson Counties had the privilege of making history by participating in the first-ever Anne Moody Day Celebration. The event was held to honor civil rights pioneer Anne Moody, author of Coming of Age in Mississippi, who grew up in Centreville. It was organized by the Anne Moody History Project (AMHP) of MTC/Wilkinson County Correctional Facility (WCCF) and the Centreville Board of Aldermen.

About 70 people watched as town officials presented a proclamation for Anne Moody Day and unveiled the Anne Moody Street sign. It was truly a memorable occasion.

On behalf of Warden Jody Bradley, I want to thank everyone who came out to support this historic event, which would not have been possible without the support of the Centreville Board of Aldermen. We are especially grateful to the board for the support of Aldermen John “Coach” Moore and David Walker, Alderwoman Felicia Williams, former Mayor Larry Lee, Deputy Clerk Nicole VanNorman, and street maintenance employees Lorenzo Parker and Chaebas Anderson.

We are also thankful to the Wilkinson County Board of Supervisors for their support and to Supervisor Venton “Bubba” McNabb and Chancery Clerk Thomas Tolliver for their presence at the event. Mr. McNabb and Mr. Tolliver have been pillars of encouragement from day one of this community service project which started in March this year with the staff of WCCF.

We were honored to have the participation of Moody’s son, Sasha Straus; her siblings, Fred Moody Jr., Adline Moody and Ralph Jefferson; and other family members. We were very much pleased to see representatives of the Mississippi Library Commission, who are planning a short film on the literary contributions of Anne Moody.

Mr. David Dreyer, a volunteer curator and researcher, came as a representative of the African American Museum in Natchez. He brought with him a portrait of Anne Moody taken during her time as a student at Natchez Junior College. He displayed the portrait during the ceremony. The Rev. LeReginald Jones, a local pastor, assisted us with the opening prayer during the ceremony.

A special debt of gratitude is owed to Deputy Warden of Programs Tonya Toomey and the staff of WCCF who played a major role in organizing the event, which was held on Moody’s birthday. The staff and others in attendance wore purple, Moody’s favorite color, or a purple ribbon.

In presenting this letter of gratitude, we want to also acknowledge AMHP members Emma Taplin, Ruby Dixon and LaVern Taylor, who worked diligently for several months to make this ceremony a reality. Several WCCF staff also participated in the ceremony, including Mr. Keith O’Banion, Ms. Jasmine Morris, and Ms. Felicia Williams. Mr. Branton Lewis assisted with photography.

And last, but not least, we offer special thanks to Mr. Andy Lewis and The Woodville Republican for their excellent coverage of the Anne Moody ceremony. Mr. Lewis’ coverage of this event was nothing short of exceptional and we take pride in calling his paper “our hometown paper.”

As a staff member of WCCF and chairman of the AMHP, I can say with utmost sincerity that we are grateful to everyone who was involved in any way with this special event to honor Anne Moody. It is our wish that her story will inspire us, and many others, to do our best at making the world a better place to live. May her legacy live on for future generations.

Sincerely,


Chaplain Roscoe Barnes III, Ph.D.
Chairman, Anne Moody History Project
MTC/Wilkinson County Correctional Facility


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This Letter of Thanks appeared as an advertisement on page 3 of
the Oct. 12, 2017 issues of The Woodville Republican (Woodville, Miss.)

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Would you like to know more about Anne Moody?
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For more information: 
See the Anne Moody page here.
Questions about the Anne Moody History Project may be directed to Roscoe Barnes III via email at doctorbarnes3@gmail.com or roscoebarnes3@yahoo.com For updates on Anne Moody history and the on-going work of this community service project, simply follow this blog or follow AMHP on Twitter (@AnneMoodyHP). #ComingOfAgeinMississippi

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Praise for Anne Moody

What readers and leaders had to say about this extraordinary 
woman and her book, Coming of Age in Mississippi

#AnneMoody

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Coming of Age in Mississippi was first published in 1968 by Dial
Publishing. It has reportedly remained in print since that time. Over the
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Note: This collection of reviews and comments about Anne Moody and her classic autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi, was taken from multiple sources. While many originated as blurbs and promotional copy featured in the book (and on the book’s cover), some of the comments came from newspaper articles, blog posts, and online discussion groups.

The language will undoubtedly appear dated in some of the comments, particularly when the word “negro” is used. Still, the sentiments expressed are just as relevant and meaningful today as they were in years past. Some may argue, and with some justification, I might add, that the ideas shared about Moody are more pertinent today given the current political (and racial) climate.

Whatever views one may have about race and politics, it is my hope that we will learn from Moody’s story … take a few risks … and be inspired to make a difference by working -- and serving -- in the interest of freedom, justice and civil rights for all. May her memory be honored and may her legacy live on for future generations. – Roscoe Barnes III, Chairman, Anne Moody History Project

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"Reading this book places you right in the heart of the civil rights movement, with a remarkably strong woman as your guide. She was bold and outspoken and unafraid.

"Moody died in February at age 74. Thankfully, though, her words, her courageous spirit, and her important legacy live on to inspire future generations." — Lou Ann Lofton, Mississippi Business Journalmbj@msbusiness.com

“Coming of Age was a big deal when it came out, and it’s still a big deal now, nearly fifty years later. It is read in literature and history classes in high schools, colleges and universities throughout the country, indeed, around the world. It is one of those rare sorts of books that has never gone out of print. It is a modern-day classic.” -- M. J. O’Brien, author of We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired

“Her book, ‘Coming of Age in Mississippi,” guarantees her immortality. But more than that, we shall always remember a brave, a plucky and committed human being who, despite the many and various vicissitudes, continued toward the Sun.” – John Salter Jr., Tougaloo professor, in The Clarion-Ledger (Feb. 7, 2015)

“We came from a very poor family, and when she joined the movement, she did it because it was something that needed to be done. She wasn’t out there just to be there. I’m very proud of her for what she did. She made it better for me.” – Adline Moody, sister of Anne Moody, in interview with the Associated Press (Feb. 7, 2015)

“An Eloquent, Moving Testimonial To Her Courage… A Shattering Experience.” – Chicago Tribune

“ENGROSSING, SENSITIVE, BEAUTIFUL … SO CANDID, SO HONEST AND SO TOUCHING, AS TO MAKE IT VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN.” – San Francisco Sun-Reporter

“A history of our time, seen from the bottom up, through the eyes of someone who decided for herself that things had to be changed…. A timely reminder that we cannot now relax.” – Senator Edward Kennedy, The New York Times Book Review

“Something is new here … rural southern black life begins to speak. It hits the page like a natural force, crude and undeniable and against all principles of beauty, beautiful.” – The Nation

“Soul is an elusive, overworked, often misapplied term … but it fits this powerful autobiography.” – Library Journal

“Supremely involving…written with stripped simplicity … not a single false high note.” – Kirkus Reviews

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“Anne Moody recounts the horror and shame of what growing up in Mississippi really means if you are black. Poverty, knives, threats, arson, miscegenation, illegitimacy, domestic service, police brutality, Uncle Toms, lynchings, the works. Miraculously, out of the quagmire the personal excellence of this extraordinary woman and writer emerges …. Her later involvement with NAACP, CORE, summer projects, rights demonstrations, ugliness, violence, she describes without a trace of see-what-a-martyr-am-I. … A lovely and true book that gives you what good writing is supposed to: catharsis, baby.” – Publishers Weekly

“The most moving and honest account of what life is like for the Negro in Mississippi as one is apt to find … a far better story (and certainly far better told) than most fiction being published today … One of the most (possibly the most) engrossing, sensitive, beautiful books of nonfiction which has been published for years and years.” – San Francisco Sun-Reporter

“Simply, one of the best … For those readers who still persist in the myth that growing up black in the South is little different from growing up white, this book should prove a shattering experience …. Anne Moody’s autobiography is an eloquent, moving testimonial to her courage; indeed, to the courage of all the young who storm the preserves of bigotry…. After reading this remarkable book, we know that this is the way it is.” – Chicago Tribune

“Definitive … supremely human … Anne Moody tells it like it is – and tells it with sensitivity and anger and despair and frustration and wondering …. She is a hero, I suppose, by measurements of history; but she is not a profile of a hero … she is as multi-dimensional as any person I have met in print.” Oregon Journal

“Nearly half a century after its publication, Ms. Moody’s 1968 autobiography remains a noted volume in the library of first-person accounts describing the inequality suffered by African Americans of her era.” – Emily Langer, Washington Post

“She had determination. That determination carried on in her work in the civil rights movement, gave her strength to stand up to things.” – The Rev. Ed King, former chaplain of Tougaloo College, in The Clarion-Ledger (Feb. 7, 2015)

“She gave us the testament of her youth and sacrificed her fragile consciousness on the altar of nonviolence so that we might all have a better life, a better America, a better world.  That’s quite a legacy.” -- M. J. O’Brien, author of We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired

"I am deeply saddened by the death of Anne Moody. Anne dedicated her life to ensuring equality for others. Her sacrifices will never be forgotten and her legacy will live on in the hearts of many.” -- Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (MS-02)

“Not surprisingly, Mississippi students respond strongly to Moody’s powerful, very personal account of her growing consciousness of racism in Mississippi in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and her gradual evolution into an angry, outspoken participant in the burgeoning Civil Rights movement. 

“Moody wrote her book while she was still young; her account of her childhood (poverty, the hatred of local whites, her mother’s fear of her activism, etc.) is moving because she was the age of most of my students when she wrote about her own childhood, high school and college experiences.” -- Maureen Ryan, USM professor of English
 (http://www.studentprintz.com/civil-rights-activists-legacy-lives) 

“I always looked up to Anne Moody after reading her memoir in one of my English classes and when I heard the unfortunate news of her death, I could not believe it, but I knew she had left behind a powerful legacy from the changes she made.” -- Katelyn Daniels, a junior psychology major (http://www.studentprintz.com/civil-rights-activists-legacy-lives)

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For more information: 
Questions about the Anne Moody History Project may be directed to Roscoe Barnes III via email at doctorbarnes3@gmail.com or roscoebarnes3@yahoo.com For updates on Anne Moody history and the on-going work of this community service project, simply follow this blog or follow AMHP on Twitter (@AnneMoodyHP). #ComingOfAgeinMississippi

Centreville renames street in honor of civil rights activist and author, Anne Moody

Front-page coverage of historic celebration appears in Bluff City Post

#AnneMoody

We are thankful to Mr. William H. Terrell, editor and publisher of The Bluff City Post, and Mr. Albert Jones, for their coverage of the Anne Moody Day Celebration on Sept. 15, 2017, in Centreville, Miss. A story and photograph of the event appeared on the front page of the September 22 - October 13, 2017 issue of The Bluff City Post.

Mr. Terrell said after the event, “We were more than happy to be there and even more so to put her article on the front page of our newspaper.”

The Bluff City Post, based in Natchez, Miss., has been a strong voice for civil rights and social justice for many decades. Mr. Terrell often covers stories in the black community that you may not see in other papers. His publication of this recent celebration was the second piece on Anne Moody that he ran on the front page.

We sincerely appreciate Mr. Terrell and the exceptional job that he is doing with his newspaper. May he and his staff be blessed for many years to come. – Roscoe Barnes III, Chairman, Anne Moody History Project

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Bluff City Post (Natchez, Miss.) page 1
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Bluff City Post (Natchez, Miss.) page 7 
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Would you like to know more about Anne Moody?
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For more information: 
Questions about the Anne Moody History Project may be directed to Roscoe Barnes III via email at doctorbarnes3@gmail.com or roscoebarnes3@yahoo.com For updates on Anne Moody history and the on-going work of this community service project, simply follow this blog or follow AMHP on Twitter (@AnneMoodyHP). #ComingOfAgeinMississippi