![]() Moody worked in Canton, Mississippi, for more than a year with CORE to register African-American voters. She also took part in the 1963 march on Washington, D.C. In 1963, she was one of three young people who staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Jackson. While at Tugaloo, Moody became an activist in the civil rights movement, maintaining involvement with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She then won an academic scholarship to Tugaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, and received a bachelor of science degree in 1964. She won a basketball scholarship to Natchez Junior College and was in attendance from 1959 through 1961. ![]() Born Essie Mae Moody on September 15, 1940, near Centreville, Mississippi, Moody was the daughter of poor African-American sharecroppers. ![]()
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