Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry' is a novel written by Mildred D. Taylor. The novel centers around the theme of racism and set during the time of the Great Depression and Jim Crow period.
In the novel, the Logans children are insulted and humiliated by white children's school bus. The bus would splash mud water on Logans children. So, one day, the children decided to dig a hole that would make the bus unable to use for several weeks. So, they dug a hole and the bus got stuck.
The night the bus got stuck, it worried Cassie as she wondered if someone might have seen them digging the hole and told someone about it. During that time, blacks were mysteriously being burned and killed, and when Joe Avery came to visit their house that night, Cassie thought that someone might have seen them digging the hole.
