to Strawberry (another town) and sells her goods at the market there, but away from the white people's wagons. Big Ma, Cassie's grandmother, takes Stacey, Cassie and T.J. Meanwhile, Mama begins recruiting people to boycott the Wallaces' store because they are the cause of most of the trouble between the blacks and the whites, and are alleged to be members of the " night men". Mama explains that the Wallaces are responsible for this and that is why they are never to go near the Wallaces' store again.
Berry is badly burned, gruesomely disfigured and mute. Stacey tells her and she takes the children to visit the Berrys. Instead of telling their mother, Morrison leaves Stacey to do it himself. Morrison finds them fighting and separates them, much to the Wallaces' anger. runs to the Wallace store, which the Logans forbid their children from visiting. She finds the notes, accuses Stacey of cheating on the test, and whips him in front of the class before failing him. creates cheat sheets that he gives to Stacey when he sees Mrs. The next week, Stacey and his friend T.J. Papa leaves the next day to catch a train.
Morrison to assist in planting, farming, protection, and other jobs, as Morrison was fired from the railroad for a fight that was the white men's fault. That Saturday, their father, David, comes home from his railroad job in Louisiana, bringing with him L.T. She hands them back to a dumbstruck Crocker. Mary calmly glues a piece of paper over the chart containing the racist information. Their teacher, Miss Crocker, meets with Cassie's mother, Mary, who is also a teacher at the school. Logan's grandfather bought 200 acres in 1887, then another 200 acres in 1919.Īt school, Cassie and Little Man notice that the books they use were originally in new condition distributed to the white kids, finally given to the black students once they are in bad condition. It originally belonged to a white plantation owner, Harlan Granger, but he sold 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2) of it in 1886 to cover his taxes during Reconstruction.
Unlike most black families in their area, the Logan family owns the land on which they reside. Nine-year-old Cassie Logan lives in rural Mississippi with her three siblings, Stacey (twelve years old), Christopher-John (seven years old), and Little Man (six years old). ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( June 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. The novel contains several themes, including Jim Crow segregation, Black landownership, sharecropping, the Great Depression, and lynching. In the book, Taylor explores struggles of African Americans in 1930s Mississippi through the perspective of nine-year-old Cassie Logan. The novel is the first book in the Logan family saga, which includes four sequels ( Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981), The Road to Memphis (1992), The Gold Cadillac (1987), and All the Days Past, All the Days to Come (2020)) and three prequels ( The Land (2001), The Well: David's Story (1995), and Song of the Trees (1975)) as well as two novellas ( Mississippi Bridge (1990) and The Friendship (1987)). Part of her Logan family series, it is a sequel to her 1975 novella Song of the Trees. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a 1976 novel by Mildred D.