ABSTRACT
Seventh-grade history and language arts teachers, Maria Romero and Randy Jackson, are preparing to launch a unit on race relations in the United States from the 1930’s depression through the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement. To kick off their unit they have assigned Mildred Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, a book that has won numerous awards and has become a perennial favorite among middle school teachers and students. The novel is set in Mississippi in the 1930s and is told through the voice of heroine Cassie Logan as she experienced her African American family’s struggle against poverty and racism.
