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1963 Anne Moody, who later wrote Coming of Age in Mississippi, participated in a Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in.
1media/Anne Moody at Lunch Counter Sit ins_thumb.jpeg2022-07-29T20:15:33+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911On May 28, 1963, Anne Moody was among the students from historically black Tougaloo College who staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in downtown Jackson, Miss. A white mob attacked the integrated group of peaceful students, dousing them with ketchup, mustard and sugar and beating one of the men. A photograph from the sit-in shows Moody sitting stoically at the five-and-dime counter with food on her head. Moody’s eyes are downcast as a man pours more food on one of her fellow students, Joan Trumpauer. Moody wrote in her 1968 memoir that “all hell broke loose” after she and two other black students, Memphis Norman and Pearlena Lewis, prayed at the lunch counter.plain2022-07-29T20:15:33+00:001963Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49