The book Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry is a story of courage , love and pride and it was written by Mildred.D Taylor . This book is about the Logan family trying to get around in a hugely racist place, Mississippi. The book has shown bits of racism; this is when black people were treated unfairly, examples of this are the Jim Crow’s law and share cropping .Jim Crow’s laws were laws which enforced that black and white people be separate but equal like buses and school. Share cropping is when black people work on a farm from a little piece of the house they would sleep in . These paragraphs will be about discrimination in the book. Slavery was abolished in 1865. There is a lot more historical parts in the book and if you read about it and it will teach you about history. An example is the night men that killed black people in the night. This is shown when their burnt down a house.

An example of discrimination in the novel is when the school gave old books to the black pupils in the school. A quote from this is when little man say’s “mama they give this rotten books to make fun of us”. Little man was so furious he stamped on the inside cover because of the words and the condition of the book. This sentence shows discrimination in the book because all the bad condition books are going to the black people and the good books are going to the white people. This shows how the black people are treated unfairly and only get hand-me-downs.

Another example of this is when Lillian Jean tells Cassia to get on the road when she did not do anything to her, she was just was very rude . A quote from the book is when cassia says “I’m sorry miz lillian Jean” This is discrimination because has to say sorry even thore she done nothing. This show’s discrimination because she is being treated unfairly like black people were not allowed on the side-walk and white people were which is not allowed . This is also racism which is terrible and is not allowed for any race and it is illegal to-day as well .

There is also discrimination were they keep on getting splashed by the bus and the schools and the words people said and shouted at them bad words (racist) .A qoute from the book to book this is when the people on the bus say words at them and when little man tell big mam this was discrimination because the bus did not allow black people, they did not get any buses they had to walk to school but the white people did get buses which is unfair . The schools were part of the Jim Crow’s law separated but equal .

Another bit of discrimination was at the baronet store were the owner kept on missing the black people . A qoute from the book about this is when “whose little nigger is this” bellowed Mr Barrnett . This is discrimination because it is racist you can not push in what ever the race you are . The owner is racist because he says the n word and does not take the black people orders but takes whites people orders .also the owner when Cassia stand’s up for her self he kicks her out and is very rude to her and Stacy and T.J . this is very bad but happened back then in those days .

My opinion is the book is rude and bad but the book is amazing and gives you a good viewing about the times back then . This is a good book if you wanted to see how it was back then, when slavery was over but racism was about still and it was a lot more than now and it needs to be stooped . This was essay thank you for reading .