Mildred D. Taylor's Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is, without a doubt, a controversial book. It faces challenges every year for a multitude of reasons, one of which being that the book is “too inappropriate” for children to read. The book was written in 1976 by Mildred D. Taylor, and it depicts the lives of an African-American family during the Great Depression, as well as the racism they faced. The Great Depression, which lasted from 1929 to 1939, was a major economic decline. It had devastating effects in countries both wealthy and poverty-stricken. Farming communities and rural areas suffered as crop prices dropped by about 60%. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry takes place in 1933, and the main protagonist lives in rural Mississippi.
Mildred D. Taylor, born