"I couldn't believe it, but it was the Klan blacklist, with my picture on it. I think I sat there for about an hour holding it, " says Moody in his autobiography Coming of Age in Mississippi. In Moody's response to the blacklist, a pervasive theme of her memoir becomes apparent: although she participated in many of the same activist movements as her peers, Moody is separated from them by several things, chief among them being her ability to seeing the events of the 1960s through a broad, colorless (pun intended) perspective. While many involved on both sides of the civil rights movement remained invested in its goals, Moody remained clear-headed and saw things as honestly as possible, even if it meant thinking negatively about his own family or even the movement itself . Moody describes a wealth of examples throughout the book that illustrate this point, from when she was a child growing up on a plantation with the rest of her family, to when she leaves New Orleans and boards a bus for Washington. , DC In Part 1 - Childhood At the beginning of the autobiography, the author describes her experience as a victim of racism at a particular moment in a local cinema. Arriving at the theater at the same time as his white friends, Moody and his brothers naturally follow them into the lobby, which was designated for whites only. Moody and his brothers are kicked out of the theater. Recalling the incident, Moody says, "I had never really thought of them [his friends] as white before. Now suddenly they were white, and their whiteness made them better than me." Moody's poise and need to question the world around her is somewhat solidified at this time, even at a relatively young age. Indeed, Moo… center of paper… the white members of the community overseeing the process. Facing such passivity and frustration, facing danger head-on, and continuing to work for the advancement of civil rights despite great personal risk, these traits distinguish Moody as a person of great courage, compared to his peers. Moody's Autobiography Coming of Age in Mississippi is much more than just the story of a young woman's transition to adulthood. It is the chronicle of a young woman who refuses to sacrifice her self-respect and sees things as they are, no matter what side she takes. The final words of his personal narrative reflect the frustration and unconditional skepticism that marked his views in the rest of the memoir. As she sits on the bus to Washington, D.C., listening to her friends sing, “We will get through,” she responds, “I wonder. I really wonder."