The Logan family struggles to maintain its economic independence, symbolized by their ownership of four hundred acres of land. She witnesses discrimination in her segregated school, feels terror when the Ku Klux Klan rides through the night, witnesses crimes against African Americans go unpunished, and is humiliated when she is forced to step off the sidewalk for Lillian Jean to pass, invoking white privilege. Cassie learns what it means to be African American. In 1933, the Great Depression grips the entire country, but what Cassie knows is that the price of cotton has dropped, forcing her father to leave home and find work on the railroad. She creates a realistic world of rural Mississippi through the eyes of a child, without bitterness and polemics, but with surprise and growing disillusionment. Nine-year-old Cassie's narration enables Taylor to juxtapose childhood innocence and wonder with bigotry and racism. The novel chronicles one traumatic year in the heroic lives of David Logan his wife Mary their children Cassie, Stacey, Little Man, and Christopher-John and their extended family. Taylor created an African American saga for young people with her vivid portrayal of the Logan family. In In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, a highly acclaimed novel that was a New-bery Medal winner and an American Library Association Notable Book, Mildred D.
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