With his new injury, Papa can't go back to work on the railroad, and then the bank demands that they pay the mortgage on their land immediately. Morrison fights off the Wallaces, hurting two of them badly. On the way back from a trip to Vicksburg, the Wallaces attack Papa, Mr. Granger threatens to have the boycotters placed into chain gangs. Several black families are forced to stop shopping in Vicksburg when Mr. and Melvin Simms, older white boys, instead. gets Mama fired from her teaching job by telling the Wallaces that she teaches material that isn’t in the textbook. Granger, a local landowner who keeps a number of black families working his land as sharecroppers and who wants to get back 400 acres of land his ancestors sold to the Logans, threatens to make the Logans lose their land if they don’t stop the boycott. Jamison, agrees to provide credit for the families who have decided to have Papa shop for them in Vicksburg rather than patronize the Wallaces' store. The problem is that many of the sharecropping families don’t have cash and can only buy groceries from the Wallace store because their landowners have credit there. Meanwhile, Papa and Mama organize a boycott of the Wallace store among the black community. Papa also warns the children to stay away from the Wallace store, since the Wallaces are the ones responsible for the burning. Morrison, who stays with the Logans as an extra security measure while Papa’s away working. This sets the tone for the book, as the children continue to deal with racial violence and injustice throughout the year.Īfter Papa hears about the burning, he returns unexpectedly from the railroad with a very large black man named Mr. When the Logan children return to school after the summer, they hear from their oldest brother Stacey’s friend, T.J., that some white men burned three black men for allegedly flirting with a white woman.
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