

“Let us come together as a community to show our support and love during this difficult time. Louis last night,” the Hancock County school district said in a statement, saying counselors would be available Monday at school. “Our hearts are broken as we mourn the tragic loss of two Hancock High School students who were victims of the shooting in Bay St. Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South Mass Market Paperback Unabridged, Januby Anne Moody (Author) 1,773 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 5.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Those are the only two public high schools in Hancock County, on the western end of the Mississippi Gulf Coast between New Orleans and Gulfport. Two more Hancock High students were shot and wounded, as were two students from Bay High. “Me and my girl looked up and saw sparks coming from the gun,” Woods said, adding many people ran into the woods.īoth of the teens who died had attended nearby Hancock High School in Kiln, officials in that school district said. Coming of Age in Mississippi Anne Moody Study Guide Characters Character List Anne Moody (Essie Mae) Toosweet Davis (Mama) Mrs. He told the paper he saw Brand talking to people and then walking away before he returned and the shooting started. Coming of Age in Mississippi: An Autobiography Or just 1,475.00 About This Item. Moody narrates her childhood in Mississippi through her college years in New Orleans and her involvements in the major historical civil right movements.

Casey Woods, an 18-year-old student at Pass Christian High School, told the Sun Herald of Biloxi that he was at the party with a girlfriend. Coming of Age in Mississippi is an autobiography about the life of African America civil rights activist Anne Moody (Essie Mae). In her autobiography, Anne Moody takes us from her earliest memories of poverty and racism in the 1940s to her involvement in what she calls The Movement.
