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Segregation In Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Segregation-- we all know it. Most of us don’t like it because it makes us feel as if we aren’t wanted. In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the setting was the 1930’s. Segregation back then was hard to deny.
Mr. Morrison was no exception. He was looked down up, and he wanted to improve on that. That makes him righteous, and therefore, the most admirable character in the book. All in all, Mr. Morrison stood up against white people and didn’t accept that others thought of him as a lower person because he was black. Mr. Morrison thought of himself as a normal person despite white people thinking lower of him. He carried himself the same way he would have if he were white. You know what, the whites that thought they were high and mighty had

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