Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry

Pain, anger, weakness and strength. These are things we get from acts of racism. Whether they are physical or verbal forms of racism, it all has the same effect. In a book written by Mildred D. Taylor called ‘Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry’, we can see a family coming to grips with racism. A Negro girl called Cassie Logan narrates the story. Her family lives in Mississippi. The story is written during the 1930’s, after the American civil war. Cassie sees the racist acts performed to her and her family. She tells of how, as her brothers and her travel to school, they are sprayed by dust and mud by the white bus driver and laughed at by the white students on their way to and from Jefferson Davis County School. Cassie explains how they are given extremely damaged and battered text books at school and that the white people wrote next to their race ‘Nigra’. She writes of when her brother Stacey, his friend T.J and her go to Strawberry. She sees a shopkeeper serving all the white peo...