MS SC574

Mourns the death of Anne Moody, civil rights activist and author, who passed away February 5, 2015, at age 74 in Gloster, Mississippi

Honors Moody's participation in the May 28, 1963, sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi, while a student at Tougaloo College

Recognizes her acclaimed 1968 memoir "Coming of Age in Mississippi," which documented her impoverished childhood in the segregated South and her civil rights activism

Notes her work with the Congress of Racial Equality and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, as well as her later antipoverty initiatives in New York

Expresses the Legislature's sympathy to her surviving family and directs that a copy of the resolution be presented to them