03832cam a2200685 i 4500 1262059461 TxAuBib 760519s1976||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 76002287 9780803774735 0803774737 9781101993880 110199388X 9780140384512 0140384510 9780142401125 0142401129 9780590982078 0590982079 9781451724936 1451724934 9780803726475 0803726473 9780590389273 0590389270 9780140348934 014034893X (OCoLC)19641 TxAuBib rda Taylor, Mildred D, author. Roll of thunder, hear my cry / Mildred D. Taylor ; frontispiece by Jerry Pinkney ; illustration by Kadir Nelson. New York : Dial Press, [1976] ©1976. 276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Jane Addams Peace Award Billie M. Levy Collection of Illustrated Children's books Sequel: Let the circle be unbroken. This is an extraordinarily moving novel -- one you will not easily forget. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, it is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence. It is a story of physical survival, but more important, it is a story of the survival of the human spirit. And, too, it is Cassie's story -- Cassie Logan, an independent girl raised by a family for whom independence is primary, a family determined not to relinquish their humanity simply because they are Black. Cassie has grown up protected, grown up strong, and so far grown up unaware that any white person could force her to be untrue to herself, could consider her inferior and treat her accordingly. It took the events of one turbulent year -- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliated Cassie in public simply because she was Black -- to show Cassie why the land meant so much, why having a place of their own where they answered to no one permitted the Logans the luxuries of pride and courage their sharecropper neighbors couldn't afford and their white neighbors couldn't allow. Richly characterized, powerfully told, Mildred Taylor's novel is unforgettable. The Logans' story is at times warm and humorous, at times terrifying. It is a story of courage and love and pride, the story of one family's passionate determination not to be beaten down. - Back cover. A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand. 920L Lexile. Accelerated Reader MG 5.7 10.0 Kilgore Intermediate. Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor, 1976. Newbery Medal, 1977. African Americans Juvenile fiction. African Americans Fiction. Blacks Southern States Fiction. Prejudices Fiction. Race relations Fiction. Depressions 1929 Fiction. Mississippi History 20th century Fiction. Children's stories. Nelson, Kadir, illustrator. Pinkney, Jerry, illustrator. Paul Cartwright Collection (Mississippi State University. Libraries). Jane Addams Peace Award. Billie M. Levy Collection of Illustrated Children's books.