and the NAACP, was a member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and was one of the original protesters at the segregated Woolworth's counter in Jackson. While at Tougaloo, she helped to organize the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), worked with Martin Luther King Jr. She excelled in school, was homecoming queen and a mostly A student in high school, going on to Natchez College on a basketball scholarship and then to Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, on an academic scholarship. She worked from age nine, first at an after-school job for a white family, cleaning house and watching their children, to help feed her own family, then supporting herself through college with a summer job waiting tables at a restaurant in New Orleans. She went to live with her father during her last year of high school, then with relatives in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Moody, deeply distressed by the violence surrounding their lives and her mother's unwillingness to confront its existence, left Centreville at her earliest opportunity.

When her father, tired of the sharecropping life, left the family, her mother remarried.

Born 15 September 1940, near Centreville, Mississippiĭaughter of Fred and Elmira Williams Moody married Austin Straus, 1967 (divorced) children: SaschaĪnne Moody grew up on a plantation in rural Mississippi, one of nine children of sharecropper parents in the violent and racist Deep South of the 1940s and 1950s.

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