![]() ![]() The novel is narrated by nine-year-old Cassie Logan, who along with her siblings grapples with the racism and violence directed at African-Americans in their rural community. ![]() In 1976, Dial published Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the second book about the Logan family. In fact, Taylor is currently at work on the final book of the series, to be released in 2017. Taylor was nowhere near to finishing telling the story of that Mississippi family, which was closely based upon her own. Regina Hayes was to be Taylor’s editor – it’s a relationship that has lasted for 40 years and counting. Taylor made the rounds to interested publishers, selecting Dial Books for Young Readers to publish the novella that would become Song of the Trees, the first in a stirring saga of a land-owning African-American family living in segregated Mississippi during the Great Depression. It was 1974 and Mildred Taylor – an African-American writer born in Jackson, Miss., – had just won a contest sponsored by the Council on Interracial Books, an organization that encouraged the publication of diverse books. ![]()
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