Wilkinson County closer to seeing ‘Anne Moody Highway’

Board issues order to approve name change

By Roscoe Barnes III

Chairman, Anne Moody History Project

Copyright (c) 2017

#AnneMoody

This document was recently issued by the Wilkinson County 

Board of Supervisors in southwest Mississippi. It honors a 

request to name a portion of Highway 24, “Anne Moody Highway.”

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The Wilkinson County Board of Supervisors, Woodville, Miss., recently issued an “Order to Approve a Resolution for Anne Moody.” The order was presented by Deputy Clerk Mattie Powell to the Anne Moody History Project (AMHP) on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. It is signed by Board President Kenyon Jackson and Chancery Clerk Thomas Tolliver.

The order places us a step closer to making history by having a portion of Highway 24, in southwest Mississippi, named in Moody’s honor.

In June this year, the board of supervisors unanimously approved a request by AMHP of MTC/Wilkinson County Correctional Facility (WCCF) to rename Highway 24, “Anne Moody Highway,” from its intersection with Highway 61 in Woodville east to the Amite County line in Centreville.

The next step in this process will include the submission of the order -- and the approved resolution -- to Mississippi State Rep. Angela Cockerham, D-Magnolia. She will then introduce legislation, possibly in January 2018, for the “Anne Moody Highway.”

Moody was born in 1940 in Wilkinson County. She grew up in Centreville and later moved to Woodville, where she attended Johnson High School. After graduating, she became a student at Natchez Junior College before later attending Tougaloo College, where she graduated in the early 1960s. Moody died in February 2015 at the age of 74. She had been living with her sister, Adline Moody, in Gloster, Miss.

Moody was a civil rights activist and the author of Coming of Age in Mississippi. She participated in numerous nonviolent demonstrations, some of which were historic. She was often threatened and persecuted in her fight for freedom and justice. The AMHP, a community service project at WCCF, is dedicated to promoting and helping to preserve Moody’s legacy as a noted author, civil rights pioneer and historic figure in Mississippi.

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Would you like to know more about Anne Moody?

Visit the Anne Moody page here!

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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