Mr Morrison Act Of Courage

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Another character that showed big amounts of courage was Papa or Mr. Logan. In the text roll of thunder hear my cry Mr. Logan (Papa) has shown acts of courage throughout the novel many times. At the beginning of the book, papa brings home Mr. Morrison because of all the burnings and other things. Mr. Morrison was there to protect his family with him being there away from his family because of his job. Another act of courage was Mr. and Mrs. Logan planned to boycott the biggest white store in town the Wallace store from asking their friends to start shopping in Vicksburg instead causing Mr. Wallace to start getting mad at the logans for that. Also after papa hearing about the attempted lynching, he went to deal with it with Mr. Morrison, and

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