Characters

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Across
  1. 3. She is a nine-year-old fourth grader and the story’s first person narrator. She is the second oldest child in her family. Through her eyes, the reader sees the injustices of racism firsthand.
  2. 4. She is Logan, school teacher and mother to the Logan children. Soft spoken but not afraid to stand up for what is right. She also helps to organize the boycott of the Wallaces store, balancing supporting the black community against exploitation and oppression while also being careful to protect her family.
  3. 6. He is seven years old and the second youngest child in his family. He is described as being chubby and generally cheerful.
  4. 9. He is a white boy who tries to befriend the Logans in spite of the fact that he is beaten for associating with them. He is a quiet, good natured little boy who doesn’t seem to fit with his own people.
  5. 12. Father to the Logan children. Usually is away from home to work on the railroad. Metes out advice and punishment when he is home. He has a quiet yet authoritative presence.
  6. 13. They are the victims of the initial tragedy which motivated the Logans to stop shopping at the Wallace store. The Wallace brothers dowsed the brothers and the uncle in kerosene and set them on fire. Mama takes the children to visit one of them as an explanation of why they are not to go to the Wallace store.
  7. 14. Ma She is the grandmother of the Logan children on the father’s side. She has a gift for healing and uses herbal medicines. She actually owns the land but has it transferred into her sons’ names to protect it. At sixty years old, she still works in the fields.
  8. 15. She is a fourth grade teacher at the Great Faith Elementary and Secondary School. She believes that the black school children should be happy with what they get, regardless of its inferior or used quality. She paddles two of the Logan children on the first day of school for refusing the used books.
  9. 16. At six years old, he is the youngest member of the Logan family. He is meticulously neat and clean. He begins first grade at the start of the story.
Down
  1. 1. A white lawyer and friend to the Logans. He is sympathetic to the plight of African American families in the South.
  2. 2. He drives the Jefferson Davis County School bus and purposefully tries to cover the Logan children in dust or splash them on their walk to school.
  3. 5. He is the son of a black sharecropper family who is farming on the Granger land. He is very mischievous and sly. He cheats on tests, makes fun of his friends, tries to get the Logan children to disobey their parents.
  4. 7. A rich white land owner who wants to buy the Logan land as it once belonged to his ancestors.
  5. 8. He is the owner of a mercantile in Strawberry. He is accused of cheating a sharecropper Mr. Tatum.
  6. 10. A guest who brought to live with the Logans in order to protect the family when the father is away on his railroad job. He is a very large man with a gentle nature who knows how to take a stand when it’s needed. He stays in a little shack on the Logan land.
  7. 11. He is the eldest Logan child. Reasonably mature 13 year old. His sblings look to him for guidance and protection. Because his father is often away for work, he feels that he must be the man of the house.