What give this theme its unique power is the attitude of Moody to her life and the material in her book. The message is clearly that if oppressed people can organize and plan such resistance to bigotry, then that bigotry can indeed be overcome. Southern bigotry is described in the book in many ways, but Essie May is able to resist the despair and resignation, which could have easily been her lot, and to rise above her situation to become a proud and hopeful member of the civil rights movement. Anne Moody, in her autobiography Coming of Age in Mississippi, argues that, despite the overwhelming bigotry of the South, the individual black American can find strength and courage within herself and with others to fight against and overcome that bigotry.
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