Racism In Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry

The Horrors of Racism

During the chaotic climax of the Jim Crow era, african-americans struggled through their lives with the perils of discrimination and racism opposing them. The people would live on plantations and they would slowly pay their debt off the land they lived on by growing crops, their income would so solely go towards their mortgage of their land that they were forced to pay to their land owner. In the historical novel, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor, explores the theme of maltreatment through, segregation, humiliation, protest, and loyalty.

Great Faith Elementary and Secondary School and Jefferson Davis County School were divided arbitrarily from each other, which blatantly defined segregation. Great Faith
Uncle Hammer is one primitive example of one character that really resists racism and discrimination, “ 'Charlie Simms knocked Cassie off the sidewalk in Strawberry and the child just told Hammer,' said Big Ma in one breath, still holding on to Uncle Hammer's arm. 'Oh, Lord,' Mama groaned. ‘Stacey, get Mr. Morrison. Quick, now!' As Stacey sped from the room, Mama's eyes darted to the shotgun over the bed, and she edged between it and Uncle Hammer. Uncle Hammer was watching her and he said quietly, ‘Don’t worry. I ain't gotta use David's gun... I got my own.' “ Uncle Hammer really dislikes the way that Charlie Simms treated Cassie, especially because he is an adult and he knocked a child off the road. Uncle Hammer wants to take action immediately and go to the Simms’ house with a gun with intentions to kill Charlie Simms. Mama wants to put the Wallaces out of business and wants Uncle Hammer to drive to Vicksburg to get the supplies needed for people not to shop at the Wallace store, “'Hammer, you go to burning and we'll have nothing,' Mama retorted. 'Ain't gonna have nothing no way.' replied Uncle Hammer. 'You think by shopping up at Vicksburg you gonna drive them Wallaces out, then you got no idea of how things work down here. You forgetting Harlan Granger backs that store!' “ Mama came up with the idea to drive the Wallaces out of business and Uncle Hammer is going to pursue it. It really shows how they would drive all the way to Vicksburg to get treated better when shopping for good. These two characters really show how they could evade and even stop the racial discrimination that is bothering them. On the other side, Harlan Granger, one of the least influential but most effective people in the book, torments all the black people living in the vicinity of his