Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry Research Paper

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Racism is very horrible and wrong. In today’s world there has been and there still is racism against all races. In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, there are many acts of racism. The Logan family has to deal with all the racism against their family. Some acts of racism were the children being spewed by dirt and dust, Cassie receiving old torn and beaten up books, and Stacey and T.J. being discriminated at the market. Cassie and her brothers are horrified to finally learn that some people could treat blacks with such disrespect and worthlessness. The idea that a person could hate someone just because of the color of their skin is unsettling. Cassie and her brothers are walking to school one morning and they hear a school…show more content…
When the books were considered too worn out, they were given to the black children to study with. The books include the ethnicity of the student, using the word “nigra.” Cassie and Little man get angry at this, but everyone else, including the teacher, just accept what they were given. Cassie says, “Sitting so close to the desk, I could see the covers of the books, a motley red, were badly worn and that the gray edges of the pages had been marred by pencils, crayons, and ink. My anticipation at having my own book ebbed to a sinking disappointment” (21). Once the books damaged beyond use the white schools would donate the beaten up books to the black schools. The white people never cared enough to give black schools any attention. Most black schools would often go without books. The school that the Logan children were attending was lucky enough to get some books that were about to be thrown out. They were basically given trash to study…show more content…
Consisting of four weather-beaten wooden houses on stilts of brick, 320 students, seven teachers, a principal, a caretaker, and the caretaker’s cow, which kept the wide crabgrass lawn sufficiently clipped in spring and summer, the school was located near three plantations, the largest and closest by far being the Granger plantations” (15). Even the schools that the black children go to are old and worn out. Just like the books the children were given a trashed school to study in. It is wrong for the superior white people to force the blacks into such beaten up schooling facilities. Cassie is just speechless because of all the racism she experiences in just one day. First, her brother and T.J. are forced to wait and wait while white people are served first in a store. When Cassie tries to complain, she is yelled and laughed at. Then, she has to apologize over and over again to a white girl. She is just humiliating herself in front of the public. Not even her strong-willed family can avoid these things, and this hurts Cassie deeply. A man said, “Well, you just get your little black self back over there and wait some more” (111). Black people were especially not well liked in public places. T.J. is yelled and laughed at. He is even forced to the back of the line. The idea that white people are somehow better than black people is incredibly wrong.
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