Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a 1976 novel by Mildred D. Taylor, sequel to her 1975 novella Song of the Trees. The novel won the 1977 Newbery Medal.[1] It's followed by two more sequels, Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981), The Road to Memphis (1990), and a prequel to the Logan family saga, The Land, released in 2001.
This popular novel explores life in southern America, "The South", after the American Civil War - when racism was still common-place and many were persecuted for the color of their skin. The 'Berry Burnings' mentioned in the first chapter and Mr. Tatum who was tarred and feathered in the fourth chapter, are prime examples of racist white people taking the law in to their own hands, at the expense of the black population.
The story of one African American family fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s.
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
