Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor

Papa’s brother Uncle Hammer comes to visit. Papa and other black farmers hold a meeting and agree the union is worthwhile, but are concerned about the fact that it is mixed-race. Since Papa is so respected, they want his support. Morris Wheeler, a white man, and John Moses, a black man, come to Papa and tell him they are starting a union to organize poor farmers. Stacey wishes he could help by getting work and chafes at his parents’ reservations about him doing so. Papa begins to worry they will not be able to afford the tax on their cotton. The Depression is difficult for all farmers, sharecroppers and landowners alike. Granger arranged for her firing for suspicious reasons, teaches a school-after-school for the kids. She and her siblings also go to church and school. is convicted and sentenced to death by the all-white jury.Ĭassie spends time reading to her elderly neighbor Mrs.

was led into the robbery by the two white Simms brothers but did not murder the shopkeeper. Jamison, attempt to show the jury the truth–that T.J. They witness T.J.’s noble white lawyer, Mr. Cassie and her brothers and friends attend the trial even though their parents did not want them to.

has been arrested for robbing and murdering a white shopkeeper. Avery, a friend of her teenage brother Stacey T.J. When the novel begins, Cassie and her family spend time with their friends and neighbors. Granger, the wealthy white owner whose land abuts theirs, is always endeavoring to take it from them.

The family owns their land, which they inherited from their grandfather, but Mr. Cassie Logan, an African American girl in the sixth grade, narrates the story of her family and extended kin and friends in Depression-era Mississippi.

Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor