Rev. Ed King Remembers Anne Moody

He Calls Her ‘One of the Heroines of the Movement’

By Roscoe Barnes III

Chairman, Anne Moody History Project

Copyright © 2017

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"One of the heroines of the movement" 

This phone interview of civil rights pioneer Ed King took place on Wednesday, December 20, 2017. I had called his office a couple of days earlier asking for a short interview about Anne Moody. He returned my call and spent a few minutes answering questions. In this brief audio clip, I ask him how Moody should be remembered. He quickly notes that she should be remembered as “one of the heroines of the movement.”

Here’s his full statement:

"She should be remembered as one of the heroines of the movement, one of the people who took first steps in the Jackson movement. When she moved out with the others at Woolworth, no one knew what would happen. They thought they might be arrested. But she was willing to move, knowing that somebody had to do something, and not wait to see what were the consequences of doing it or even if it might be successful." 

King, who was the chaplain at Tougaloo College in the early 1960s, was considered a major figure of the civil rights movement. He is the co-author of Ed King’s Mississippi: Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer. (University Press of Mississippi, 2014). Like others in the movement, King paid the price for being a civil rights leader. He suffered beatings, threats, and sometimes found his life on the line. For a moving profile of King, see “The Rev. Ed King” by Lynette Hanson in the Jackson Free Press (Thursday, October 30, 2003). Article available here.

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