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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
How could that fact affect the Logans’ willingness to stand up for themselves against racism? Supply textual evidence for your answer.
Mildred D. Taylor's gripping novel tells the story of the Logans, a land-owning black family in the Deep South struggling to keep things together during a tumultuous year in the 1930s. Largely insulated from the injustices of the world around her, but raised with a strong sense of fairness, nine-year-old Cassie is only beginning to understand the realities of racism and the everyday terror it brings to the grown-ups in her community. In the excerpt here, neighbors bring bad news for her father.