Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
"You have to demand respect in this world, ain't nobody just gonna hand it to you": First Edition of the 25th Anniversary Edition of the Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award Winning Novel
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
TAYLOR, Mildred D.
$75.00
Item Number: 146375
New York: The Dial Press, 2001.
First edition of the 25th anniversary edition of the author’s classic Newbery Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
The novel explores the struggles of African Americans in 1930s Southern Mississippi through the perspective of nine year old Cassie Logan. Taylor uses the novel to highlight several themes including Jim Crow segregation, Black landownership, sharecropping, the Great Depression and lynching. In addition to a Newbery Medal, the novel was also a National Book Award finalist and Coretta Scott King Award honoree. It was the basis for the 1978 film directed by Jack Smight and starring Claudia McNeil, Janet MacLachlan and Morgan Freeman.
