Roll Of Thunder Cry

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Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor is a historical fiction book. The book is about a black girl that is 9 years old and is living in the south 1930’s and blacks were not treated equally because of the color of their skin. I think the theme of this story was that blacks should be treated equally by the whites and not unequally because of their skin color. Blacks stood up for themselves children and adults against the whites.

The black children stood up for themselves against the whites. The children were tired of the bus splashing then so they dug a hole in the middle of the road so the bus drove into the hole when they came by instead of splashing them. “But instead of the graceful glide through the mud that its occupants were

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