Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1978): Cast & Plot

In 1933, a young girl named Cassie Logan, a 9-year-old living in rural Mississippi, finds her world shaped by the complexities of race relations during the era of segregation. Unlike many other Black families of the time who relied on sharecropping, the Logan family owns the land they inhabit—land that originally belonged to a white plantation owner, Harlan Granger, who sold it off during Reconstruction to settle his taxes. The story doesn’t follow just one central plot but intertwines multiple narratives, each highlighting different facets of Black and White interactions and the harsh realities faced by Black communities during what was known as the nadir of American race relations.