Race relations
Growing up in South Africa and the United States, Lily Moya and Anne Moody both experienced white supremacy and segregation, which shaped and influenced their lives. Both young women strove to get a higher education, yet the paths they took to get there, in addition to how each was affected by their college experience, are two very different stories. Anne's initial curiosity about whites quickly turned into a general fear and hatred of them, whereas Lily viewed whites with a sense of optimism and as possible companions. Lily and Anne were both personally involved with whites during extremely racist times, however, the different sets of circumstances each country possessed and the individual events they encountered with white people directly shaped and pushed their lives in separate directions. Lily grew up in Umtata, a small village in South Africa. As a result of her father's death, and her mother leaving Umtata to acquire work, Lily was forced to live with her uncle. The combination of Lily's aspirations to further her education and Lily's resistance to her uncle's future plans for her to be married off, led her to seek the help of Mabel Palmer. Lily's letters to Mabel convey her attitude toward Mabel, as well as the ways she
Ultimately it was one of her favorite activities, specifically basketball, that enabled Anne to attend college. Yet, it was not until Anne had been involved with the NAACP more than a year for her to truly grasp that not all whites were alike, and that some did truly deserve her respect. Burke would be a challenge, namely because she was very racist. As a result, Anne put every ounce of energy she possessed into the movement, and in a short amount of time she became a prominent spokesperson for the NAACP. Anne mentioned that Linda Jean "treated me just like I was one of her friends and I never thought about our color difference when I was with her, except when she paid me. Early in her childhood living in the United States, Anne was very curious about the relationships, and was clearly aware of differences society drew between whites and blacks. Burke succeeded in her attempts to demean Anne. Anne posed numerous questions to her mother and others about racist incidences she witnessed or heard about, but her questions were usually unsatisfactorily answered and her confusion continued during the following few years. I now realized that not only were they better than me because they were white, but everything they owned and everything connected with them was better than what was available to me. This hierarchy, and her family's poor financial situation, led Anne to take various domestic service jobs. Lily's hope for Mabel's friendship continued in the following weeks, and was strengthened because of events that occurred within her campus. However, after the murder of Emmett Till, everything changed. And for that matter, any white persons I had every known. Before Emmett Till's murder, I had known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. After participating in her first organized sit-in, Anne remarked, "all I could think of was how sick Mississippi whites were.
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