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Why does Mr. Jamison decide to help the black people buy their food and supplies in Vicksburg? Mr. Jamison does not approve of what has been happening to the black people and wants to help them.
What do Stacy, Cassie, and their brothers do in revenge for the continual school bus episodes? Dig a huge hole in the middle of the road which damages the buss.
Describe Mr. Morrison. Huge, tall and muscular with deep life lines and partially grey hair. In what state does the family live and in what year? Mississippi, 1933. List the four Logan children and their ages.
Mr. Jamison reminds Cassie of her father because he treats her mother with respect.
Why did Cassie like Mr. Jamison? Cassie liked Mr. Jamison because he treated her like he was her father.
Jamison. A local lawyer; a white man. His forefathers bought land from Harlan Granger during the reconstruction, and sold some of it to the Logan family.
Jamison is one of the good guys. He genuinely wants to help the poor black farmers, and even offers to back their credit when they're planning the boycott of the Wallace store (7.149). But he offers more than legal advice. He's also fairly heroic.
They are around 18 and 19 years old and they befriend T.J. Avery so he will steal things for them. In the end, R.W. accidentally kills Mr. Barnett and lets T.J.
Jamison then brings up the rumor he heard about black families wanting to shop in Vicksburg. The Logans want to boycott the Wallace's store and want to obtain credit for 30 black families so they can shop somewhere else.
Mr. Jamison hints that he's not the only white person in the community who finds the situation with the Wallaces unjust. He wants to help the Logans in whatever way he can, and he does so by preventing them from making a move that will lead to the Logans losing their land.
He is there with papers for Big Ma to turn legal ownership of the farm over to Papa and Uncle Hammer, to make sure the land stays in the family. Then Jamison says that he is willing to back the credit of the families that want to boycott the Wallace store and shop at Vicksburg.
The novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor is a work of historical fiction about an African American family living in rural Mississippi in 1933, at the height of theGreat Depression.
Cassie Logan is a 10-year-old African-American girl living in Mississippi in the 1930s. In her childhood, she has to look past skin color and racist actions to help improve her acceptance in society. Throughout the book, Cassie experiences many different forms of racism.
David Logan ("Papa")
TJ is a 'tall emaciated -looking', poor boy of thirteen/ fourteen years of age. His family are sharecroppers who work for Harlan Granger. He along with his younger brother Claude walk to school with the Logan children.