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1960s Lunch Counter Sit-ins
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-27 at 12.20.16 PM_thumb.png2023-03-27T19:22:40+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Anne Moody endures harassment from a crowd of whites at a Woolworth’s in Jackson, Miss. "In 1963, Moody became infamous in Mississippi after she challenged racial segregation in what would be the era’s most violent lunch-counter sit-in. At the Woolworth’s in Jackson, Mississippi, white men shoved Moody off her stool, dragged her across the floor by her hair and, when she crawled back, smeared her with ketchup, sugar and mustard. Photographer Fred Blackwell captured a now-iconic image of this day, with Moody seated in the middle. In the early 1960s, Moody worked tirelessly as an organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality in Canton, Mississippi. But after facing daily death threats, she fled to the North, where she moved from city to city, raising money for the movement. At each stop, she described what it was like to come of age, as a black woman, in Mississippi. At one, she shared a stage with baseball great Jackie Robinson, who urged her to write down her story. So she did.""plain2023-03-27T19:22:40+00:001960sGina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49