Coming of Age in Mississippi and Black Boy

<Tab/>The books "Coming of Age in Mississippi" by Anne Moody and "Black Boy" by Richard Wright are both very well written, interesting books. Although the two books are not completely identical, they are very similar. They are both stories about individuals standing up for what they believe in. The main characters in each book, Essie Mae in Coming of Age in Mississippi, and Richard in Black Boy, are both African Americans from down South America in the early 1900's, and both of these characters believed in helping the civil rights movement. Essie Mae, who later changed her name to Anne, was a strong believer in the NAACP, and was considered a leader in the civil rights movement. Richard Wright was a writer and a communist who believed strongly in helping the oppressed, and later became a famous writer, who's writings are to this day still successful in furthering the movement. …