Roll of thunder hear my cry prejudice

1930’s Mississippi was a harsh place for black people. Slavery had finished but white people still treated black people like slaves. Mildred Taylor wrote of how she learnt to grow and understand more about injustice. Cassie, the main character tells us what it was like to be living at that time in America. In the essay I will discuss about how blacks got ignored in shops and the unjust education system. The blacks had few rights and the whites controlled their lives in almost everyway.

Cassie tells us about how unfair the education system was. Such as one incident when their teacher tells the children that they have new books. They were all excited until Little Man saw the front page, which shows that the books have been passed down by whites and at the bottom of the page is the word “nigger”. It said that the condition of the book was very poor. Another example is the description of the white school.

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