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* BumpIntoConfrontation: When Cassie accidentally bumps into Lillian Jean.

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* BumpIntoConfrontation: When Cassie accidentally bumps into Lillian Jean.Jean, her father makes her step in the street and apologize to her.
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A 1976 YoungAdult book written by Creator/MildredDTaylor, and which takes place during TheGreatDepression, and the second book of the Logan family saga.

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A 1976 YoungAdult book written by Creator/MildredDTaylor, and which Creator/MildredDTaylor that takes place during TheGreatDepression, and the second book of the Logan family saga.
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* KarmaHoudini: The Simms and basically every other white person in the story gets away with racism, attempted murder, and [[spoiler:actual murder in the case of RJ and Melvin.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: The Simms and basically every other white person in the story gets away with racism, attempted murder, and [[spoiler:actual murder in the case of RJ RW and Melvin.]]
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A 1976 YoungAdult book written by Mildred Taylor, and which takes place in TheGreatDepression.

The story is centered on the Logan family, specifically Cassie Logan, and deals with the years changing and the kids' coming of age.

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A 1976 YoungAdult book written by Mildred Taylor, Creator/MildredDTaylor, and which takes place in TheGreatDepression.

during TheGreatDepression, and the second book of the Logan family saga.

The story is centered on the Logan family, specifically Cassie Logan, and deals with the years changing and the kids' coming of age.
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* BigEater: Christopher John loves food and always complains of being hungry.

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* BigEater: Christopher John loves food and always complains of about being hungry.



* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The Logans stop the lynching, but only by setting their own fields on fire, and T.J. has next to no hope of escaping the death penalty]]. Indeed, in the sequel [[spoiler: ''Let The Circle Be Unbroken'', it takes the all-white jury less than half an hour to convict him, and he is sentenced to death.]]

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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The Logans stop the lynching, but only by setting their own fields on fire, and T.J. has next to no hope of escaping the death penalty]]. Indeed, in the sequel [[spoiler: ''Let [[spoiler:''Let The Circle Be Unbroken'', it takes the all-white jury less than half an hour to convict him, and he is sentenced to death.]]



%%* KarmaHoudini: The Simms. And a lot of others.

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%%* * KarmaHoudini: The Simms. And a lot Simms and basically every other white person in the story gets away with racism, attempted murder, and [[spoiler:actual murder in the case of others. RJ and Melvin.]]
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* TrappedInASinkingCar: In the climax of ''Mississippi Bridge'', a bus skids off the eponymous bridge and plunges into the river below. The only survivors are the African-American passengers who were forced off the bus before it departed.
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* LifesavingMisfortune: In ''Mississippi Bridge'', a bus driver kicks several black passengers, including Big Ma, off a bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers. The bus ends up skidding off a bridge and into a swollen river, killing everyone aboard.

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%%* BreakTheCutie: Cassie during [[spoiler:the Strawberry trip, for starters]].

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%%* * BigEater: Christopher John loves food and always complains of being hungry.
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BreakTheCutie: Cassie during [[spoiler:the Strawberry trip, for starters]].gradually gets exposed to the horrors of racism and loses her innocence because of it.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The Logans stop the lynching, but only by setting their own fields on fire, and T.J. has next to no hope of escaping the death penalty]].

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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The Logans stop the lynching, but only by setting their own fields on fire, and T.J. has next to no hope of escaping the death penalty]]. Indeed, in the sequel [[spoiler: ''Let The Circle Be Unbroken'', it takes the all-white jury less than half an hour to convict him, and he is sentenced to death.]]

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A 1976 young adult book written by Mildred Taylor, that takes place in TheGreatDepression. The story is centered on the Logan family, specifically Cassie Logan, and deals with the years changing and the kids' coming of age.
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* BreakTheCutie: Cassie during [[spoiler:the Strawberry trip, for starters]].

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A 1976 young adult YoungAdult book written by Mildred Taylor, that and which takes place in TheGreatDepression. TheGreatDepression.

The story is centered on the Logan family, specifically Cassie Logan, and deals with the years changing and the kids' coming of age.
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BreakTheCutie: Cassie during [[spoiler:the Strawberry trip, for starters]].



* ComingOfAgeStory

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* GentleGiant: Mr. Morrison.
* TheGreatDepression

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* %%* GentleGiant: Mr. Morrison.
* %%* TheGreatDepression



* KarmaHoudini: The Simms. And a lot of others.

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* %%* KarmaHoudini: The Simms. And a lot of others.



* ManipulativeBastard: T.J. again.
* OnlySaneMan: Stacey at times, and Jeremy can count as this.

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* %%* ManipulativeBastard: T.J. again.
* %%* OnlySaneMan: Stacey at times, and Jeremy can count as this.



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°I Just Want To Have Friends: T.J. It was his motivation to hang out with R.W and Melvin
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°I Just Want To Have Friends: T.J. It was his motivation to hang out with R.W and Melvin
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°I Just Want To Have Friends: T.J. It was his motivation to hang out with R.W and Melvin
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* BumpIntoConfrontation: When Cassie accidentally bumps into Lillian Jean.
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* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Even the ''teachers'' at their school refer to Little Man almost exclusively as such. People only address him by his real name, Clayton Chester, when they mean serious business, according to Cassie.


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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Cassie is the only daughter in the Logan family.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The Logans stop the lynching, but only by setting their own fields on fire, and T.J. has next to no hope of escaping the death penalty]].



* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The burning incident, and meeting the victims.


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* TitleDrop: Late in the story
-->''Roll of thunder, hear my cry,''
-->''Over the water, by and by''
-->''Old man comin' down the line, whip in hand to beat me down,''
-->''But I ain't gonna let him turn me 'round.''

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