Racism In Midred D. Taylor's Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”--- Martin Luther King Jr. In the story Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Midred D. Taylor, which takes place during the 1930s and in the South. At this time, the Great Depression affects many people and racism and poverty is not uncommon. The main characters in this story are the Logan(Cassie, Christopher-John, Stacey, Little Man, Papa, Mama, Uncle Hammer) and the Avery(T.J, Mr. and Mrs. Avery) family, which are both African American families, and the Simms, which is a white family. The message of the story Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is that people should fight against racism,

In this part of the story, Clayton Chester Logan( Little Man) and Cassie Logan do not accept the books that the school provides them. The book is only given to them when the white kid schools don’t need them anymore, and it calls blacks “nigra”. “But as he stared at the book’s inside cover, his face clouded, changing from sulky acceptance to puzzlement. His brows furrowed. Then his eyes grew wide, and suddenly he sucked in his breath and sprang from his chair like a wounded animal, flinging the book onto the floor and stomping madly upon it. ...Holding the book up to her, I said, ‘See, Miz Crocker, see what it says. They give us these ole books when they didn’t want ‘em no more.’”(21,23) When Cassie and Little Man refuse to take the books they are breaking the precedent. While everyone else may think they are dumb, weird, and straight up crazy, they are standing up for themselves and are fighting against racism.If they didn’t do this, and instead accepted it like everyone else, this would go on and on and everyone would keep thinking calling African Americans racial slurs and them getting old books is