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Burke herself. Although Mrs. Burke's mother treated Moody well, Mrs. Burke engaged in psychological games with Moody in an effort to assert racial domination over her. For example, Mrs. Burke insisted that Moody enter her home by the back door. This Moody refused to do. Moody would knock loudly on the front door until Mrs. Burke would reluctantly answer. After several times of going through this routine, Mrs. Burke relented and Moody was allowed to enter through the front door on a regular basis. .
             One interesting incident happened to Moody in the Burke household. Mrs. Burke's son, Wayne was having problems in algebra. When Moody answered that she was a good student in that subject, Mrs. Burke couldn't believe it. She tested Moody on algebra and checked out her answers which were all correct. Mrs. Burke then paid Moody a little extra to tutor Wayne and a few white kids on algebra. This caused some racial apprehension on Mrs. Burke's part because of Wayne's apparent interest in Anne Moody during (and after) the tutoring sessions. As a result, Mrs. Burke kept monitoring Wayne's behavior around Moody. This part of the book came off as almost comedic as we see a funny look at Mrs. Burke's nervousness about the relations between Wayne and Moody. .
             Much more serious, however, was the cloud of tension that fell over Centreville in 1955 when they received news of the death of Emmett Till in another Mississippi town. .
             Emmett Till was fourteen years old. He was black and lived in Chicago. In August 1955, his mother, Mamie Till-Bradley, agreed to let Emmett, her only child, visit his uncle Mose Wright in the Mississippi Delta. She did so with a reluctance based on the harsh reality of Jim Crow segregation. She instructed Emmett to be submissive to white people in Mississippi. He thought that the "silliest thing he'd ever heard." The stage was set for a clash of two worlds. .
             Mose Wright lived near the small town of Money, Mississippi.