My Note to Britannica.com about Its Article on Anne Moody

By Roscoe Barnes III, Ph.D.
Chairman, Anne Moody History Project
Copyright (c) 2019

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Note: In reviewing Britannica's article on Anne Moody on Friday, March 1, 2019, I can see they have made the necessary corrections. They also included the correct spelling for the town of Centreville. Thanks, Britannica!

Resting place of Anne Moody's mother, Elmira (Too Sweet) Jefferson. She is buried in the cemetery at Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church, Centreville, Miss.

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On Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019, I submitted the following note to Britannica.com:

There appears to be an error (incorrect date) in your article, "Anne Moody." You write: "Moody’s other major works include Farewell to Too Sweet (1974), an homage to her mother..."

However, in a 1985 interview with Debra Spencer of the Mississippi Department of Archives & History (MDAH),  Moody,  whose mother died in 1976, said, "FAREWELL TO TOO SWEET is really, I thought, very appropriate so I've called it FAREWELL TO TOO SWEET. Hopefully it will be coming out in ..."

She got the idea for the book while visiting with her mother in 1976.

I would be happy to send you the full transcript of the interview if you can provide an email address.

Now according to Britannica, the book has publication/copyright date of 1974 -- two years before the mother died.

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