Many of the black people in town are worried that something very bad is going to happen soon: the white people are angry because of the attempted boycott (even though they managed to crush it) and T.J. has begun to steal and cheat, and has become friends with two older white boys, who only seem to like him because they can ridicule him.

They threaten to put the black people in jail if they can't pay their debts (which none of them can.) Mama and Papa refuse to give up, however. With the help of a friendly white man, Mama and Papa try to organize a boycott of the store most of the black people in town are forced to shop at, but this angers most of the white people so much that they fire Mama from her teaching job. Many of her neighbors are kept poor because their bosses don't pay them enough, which keeps them constantly indebted to their bosses, making the problem worse. Morrison, whose parents were killed by white people. Cassie is able to get revenge on a white girl her age, but she cannot understand the more sinister violence that has plagued the lives of many black people around her, including Mr. The Logan children never want to accept such treatment, but their parents tell them that sometimes, they must, and T.J. She is forced to accept these insults, or suffer even worse punishment. Cassie goes to town one weekend and is insulted first by a shopkeeper and then by a white girl her age. Still, this kind of revenge isn't always enough. They get splashed by the white children's school bus every day, until they dig a hole in the road and cause an accident, so the bus can't be used for weeks. The children try to ignore these realities, walking to school everyday with Stacey's friend T.J., who everyone else finds annoying. A white man has been trying to force them to sell their land to him for years. Morrison, to live with the children, their mother, and Papa's own mother 'Big Ma' while he is gone.

Their father has had to go to work far away just so they can have enough money to live on. In fact, the racial problems in their area seem to be getting worse: some of their neighbors were burned to death recently, for seemingly no reason at all. Even though the children come from a happy home and have more money than some of their neighbors, they are very poor and must endure constant insults and cruelties from the racist white people who live near them. Unlike most of the black families they live near, they own land, because their father has always believed in the power of owning one's own property.

Nine-year-old Cassie Logan lives with her brothers Stacey, Little Man, and Christopher-John on a farm in Mississippi. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Plot Summary

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