He and his best friend Moe run away to a sugarcane field to work. This takes a great toll on Stacey he believes he must take care of his family before they lose their land. When Stuart approaches her he genuinely respects her, assuming she is white. She catches the eye of Stuart Walker, a white boy who flirts with pretty colored girls to start trouble.

Suzella struggles with identity issues that put a strain on her relationships with others. Suzella is venerated for being attractive and mixed, making her seem like a prize to all the males in the town because she is technically black and therefore accessible, but still has the lighter skin, hair, and eyes she can be assumed as white. Mama's cousin Bud's daughter Suzella, who has a black father and a white mother, lives with the Logans. The plantation owners lied, claiming the government ordered it, but the plantation owners did it in order to receive money that was supposed to go to the sharecroppers. Some people are told that they need to pull up the acres that were already planted because they planted too much. The union does not succeed and the man who wanted to start it is beaten. is sentenced to death.Ī man makes a file to join blacks and whites together so the cotton fields can be shared. Stacey does everything in his power to help his friend, but in the end, T.J. Although he is innocent, he is tried by an all-white jury and convicted. Avery, Stacey's friend, is accused of murdering a white man, Jim Lee Barnett. The Logan family goes through hard times trying to raise their children the correct way. It won the Coretta Scott King Author Award in 1982. T.J.'s punishment is approaching, Stacey runs away to find work, and the Logan children's cousin, Suzella Rankin, tries to pass herself off as a white person, but fails which leads to embarrassing consequences. Let The Circle Be Unbroken is the 1981 sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976), written by Mildred D.

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