Roll of Thunder (1) Flashcards
(17 cards)
What are the 3 Annulments?
abolish slavery (13)
granted citizenship (14)
allowed people to vote (15)
When was the Civil War?
1861-1865
Where and when was Mildred D. Taylor born?
September 13, 1943 Jackston, Mississippi
Education for Mildred D. Taylor?
University of Toledo, University of Colorado, Boulder (MA)
What was her 1st novel and what year was it made?
Song of the Trees, 1975
What was her 2nd novel and what year was it made?
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, 1976
What are 4 other novels and the year it was made?
The Gold Cadillac, 1987
The Mississippi Bridge, 1990
The Well, 1995
The Land, 2001
What are 5 awards she won?
The Newberry Medal, 1997
ALA Lifetime Achievement Award, 2020
Children Literature Legacy Award, 2021
The New York Times, 1975
NSK Newstadt prize for children Literature, 2033
Who in the family “told stories”?
The whole family but her father really told the most detail when he as telling her the stories
Where does the family own land? Where did this land come from? When was it acquired?
The land is owned in Mississippi during the “Great Depression” and originally this land came from a Yanky buying the land and gave the land to the Logans to have.
Reconstruction Era
1865-1877 US wanted to reintegrate the contferdate states and newly freed slaves into the union. Healing era after the civil war, difficult for the south to build a new system without slaves
The Great Depression
1929-1941 25% of the population was jobless, the stock market crashed creating the Great Depression, everyone moved to the west (California)
Racial Segregation
Late 19th century- 1960, colored people and white people separated, different schools, bathrooms, buses, and baised opions.
Jim Crow Laws
illegal for blacks and whites to have fun with each other, after these laws segregation and discrimination was spread across the south United States
The First Great Migration from the South
1910- 1940 had black people move to the midwestern and west states, when people moved everything was better for African Americans
Peace Corps
She was in the Peace Corps for 2 years, a PCV teacher in the southern Ethiopian village of Yirgalem, at the time she was a fine writer, but she left nobody knowing that she would write great books later on in life.
Where was she raised?
Toledo, Ohio
