The bank suddenly requires full payment of the Logans’ mortgage, but Uncle Hammer sells his Packard to pay it. Morrison lifts their truck from the road, stunning them with his strength. Morrison takes the children along in the wagon to run an errand. The Wallaces attack their wagon, shooting David. Still, David goes shopping there with Stacey and Mr. Several families drop out of the Vicksburg arrangement. begins spending time with the White Simms boys. divulged this role to the White men, so the Logan’s cut ties with T.J.

Morrison closes the night with a sad tale about the massacre of his family by White men during the Reconstruction period, a decade after the Civil War.Ĭassie’s mother, Mary, is fired for her role in the boycott. The family tells stories by the fire, and Mr.

David returns in the early morning hours of Christmas Eve. fool him and urges him to learn from the mistake. Uncle Hammer berates Stacey for letting T.J. teases Stacey about his coat and convinces him to give it to him. Uncle Hammer, David’s brother who lives in Chicago, arrives for a visit. Both Lillian Jean and her father push Cassie, but Big Ma makes Cassie apologize. There, Cassie bumps into Lillian Jean Simms. travel to Strawberry with Big Ma to sell goods. Mary learns they were at the store and takes them to see Mr. for stealing his mother’s test scores and letting him take the blame. Cassie sees White men outside of the Logan home that night, but they leave without incident. The Logans worry the men will target her family because of their bus prank. Later, they hear that a party of White men is going after more Black families. The bus becomes stuck in the trench, damaging it. The bus driver from the White school intentionally splashes mud on the Logans, and Stacey devises a plan: the Logan children dig a trench in the road, which fills with rainwater. David decides that his family will no longer shop at the local Wallace store, as they are likely responsible for the attack on the Berrys. Morrison, who is to help protect the Logans’ home.

Cassie’s father, David, returns home from his job working on the railroad with Mr. One of the friends, T.J., tells the Logans that White men set fire to three members of the Berry family. The group must dodge a school bus carrying White students to the better-funded Jefferson Davis School. She and her three brothers-Stacey, Christopher John, and Little Man-walk to the Great Faith Elementary and Secondary School for Black students along a dusty road with their friends. In 1933, 9-year-old narrator Cassie Logan lives with her family in rural Mississippi.

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