In what ways do the tactics of the Logan family resemble those of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s?

The Logan Family always used non-violence to protest unjust treatment. Like Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement, the Logans used civil disobedience as a peaceful tool. They "boycott" the Wallace store. This attempt to take business away from the people that persecute and use blacks is in line with the Civil Rights movement. The LOgan family often bend the rules to make things tougher on their oppressors. The children concealing a hole thus breaking the axle of the white school bus is another example of a type of civil disobedience used to get back at the people who regularly splash them with mud on their way to school.

There are many acts of civil disobedience throughout the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. One example is right in the beginning of the novel when Mrs. Logan is covering the front page of the student’s learning books. “She had trimmed the paper to the size of the books and was now dipping a gray- looking glue from the brown bottle onto the inside cover of one of the books” (Taylor 30). The outcome of this disobedience is Mrs. Logan ends up getting fired by Mr. Granger and the Wallace brothers. This act of civil disobedience affected the plot development throughout the novel.