Gift welcomed by Anne Moody
History Project
By Roscoe Barnes III
Chairman, Anne Moody
History Project
Copyright © 2018
#AnneMoody
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Members of the Anne Moody
History Project (AMHP) received 50 copies
of Coming of Age in Mississippi as a special gift from Professor Leigh Ann Wheeler, Ph.D., of New York. AMHP members from left: Emma Taplin, LaVern Taylor and Ruby Dixon. |
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Woodville, Miss. -- A New York professor recently donated 50 copies of Coming of Age in Mississippi to the Anne Moody History Project (AMHP). AMHP is a community service project of Wilkinson
County Correctional Facility (WCCF) in Woodville, Miss.
Dr. Leigh Ann Wheeler, Professor
of History at Binghamton University of Binghamton, New York, said she was
delighted to make the contribution. She said via email:
“I sent these to you because
I know you are using Anne Moody's autobiography to do great work with inmates
at the correctional facility, and also because I know you want to introduce
local residents and school children to Anne's life and work--and autobiography.”
Wheeler, who is senior editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, is the author of How Sex Became a Civil Liberty (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Against Obscenity:Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873–1935 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). She is widely published in academic journals.
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| Professor Leigh Ann Wheeler, Ph.D. |
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Wheeler, who is senior editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, is the author of How Sex Became a Civil Liberty (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Against Obscenity:Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873–1935 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). She is widely published in academic journals.
Wheeler is currently doing
research on Moody. In fact, she’s writing the first critical biography of the
civil rights pioneer. In February, she will visit Centreville, Miss., Moody’s
hometown, and other places in southwest Mississippi.
Wheeler said the visit, the
first of many, will help her to get better acquainted with the area and the
people who knew Moody. Her list of contacts includes the family and friends of
the noted author. For more information on Wheeler, see her profile at:
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Members of the Anne Moody History Project welcome donation of
Anne Moody's book. From left are: Emma Taplin, LaVern Taylor,
Roscoe Barnes III, and Ruby Dixon.
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Moody was born in 1940 in
Centreville. She died in 2015. At the time of her death, she was living in Gloster, Miss. Her book, Coming
of Age in Mississippi, was first published in December 1968. AMHP is
working to promote and help preserve her legacy as a writer and worker in the
civil rights movement.
AMHP member LaVern Taylor
said she was pleasantly surprised by Wheeler’s gift, which arrived during the
Christmas holiday season.
“I think it’s wonderful in
this day and time that people are willing to give such thoughtfulness in
educating our people,” she said. “You just don’t have that many people today
who would do such a thing, but I’m really grateful to her for this gift.”
AMHP hopes to place the books
in the Wilkinson County School District where students in both the high school
and middle school can discover Moody’s legacy and be inspired to help make the
world a better place to live.
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Learn MORE about
Anne Moody! Visit here to see
the timeline of
important events in her life history!
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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
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