Characters 1
Where does Uncle Hammer live?
Chicago
While in the Strawberry Mercantile, what make Cassie so angry?
Mr. Barnett is serving white people before the black people.
What is "chattel slavery"?
Slavery where people are considered objects
Who were segregation laws named after?
"Jim Crow"
Who is always meticulously neat about their appearance?
Little Man
What does David Logan do to earn cash?
Works on the railroad
What does Little Man's teacher believe he can't do at the start of the school year?
Read
What do RW and Melvin do that shows they planned to rob the Mercantile?
They disguise themselves with stockings and gloves
What movement did Hammer and millions of other Black people join to leave the South?
The Great Migration
What was the nickname for sharecropping?
"Slavery by another name"
What is Mrs. Logan's specific job?
7th grade teacher
Who is Cassie's teacher?
Miss Crocker
What is the thing that makes all the Logan children so angry at the beginning of the book?
The Jefferson Davis school bus
Why do the Wallaces let Uncle Hammer pass them on Soldier's Bridge?
They thought he was Mr. Granger.
What event connects Mr. Morrison's childhood and TJs?
Both their families were attacked by white lynch mobs
How did Rhode Island "need" slavery?
It depended on cotton.
What did the Supreme Court say in the Plessy v Ferguson decision?
Segregation was constitutional as long as it was "separate but equal"
Who backs the credit in Vicksburg for the Black people in the boycott?
Mr. Jamison
Who is Sam Tatum?
The man who was tarred and feathered because he accused Mr. Barnett of lying about what he owed.
Why did David Logan have to start working on the railroad?
The price of cotton dropped so low they weren't getting enough cash
What gift does Jeremy give Stacey at Christmas?
A hand-carved flute
Historically Black Colleges and Universities were created because existing schools mostly banned Black students from attending
What and when was "Red Summer"?
The summer of 1919 when white mobs attacked Black communities in cities all over the country.
Who had to sell land from the Granger Plantation after the Civil War?
Filmore Granger
What are the names of the Wallace brothers?
Dewberry, Kaleb, and Thurston
Why does Big Ma sign the land over to Uncle Hammer and Papa?
To be sure that it doesn't get taken when she dies
Why did Mr. Ellis chase Hammer and David?
They were stealing his watermelons/swapping their watermelons for his
Where is Stacey at the end of the novel?
In the forest
During the Great Depression, how much did the price of cotton drop?
By ⅔ rds
What did the 13th amendment to the Constitution do?
Outlawed slavery except as punishment for a crime.