Mildred D Taylor

A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.

In Mississippi in the early 1900s ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.

When she returns to her home in Mississippi after finishing law school, Cassie Logan becomes involved in voter registration drives and other aspects of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Two black girls living in the North are proud of their family's beautiful new Cadillac until they take it on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time.

During the Depression, a rural black family deeply attached to the forest on their land tries to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man.

The Land" by Mildred D. Taylor was first published in 2001. The present novel is the last book of the Logan Family story which had begun with "Song of the Trees."The story revolves around the life of Paul-Edward Logan. He happens to be the son of a white man and a black woman. At the end of the main story, there are three entries in the book from Paul's journal. The author has used the Southern dialect from 1870s and the 1880s. The author has based...