Is Let The Circle be Unbroken (1981) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 80 / 100 (WOKE-leaning (left-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Mildred D. Taylor, 1981.
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Why: Civil rights era story of a Black family resisting racism
Let the Circle Be Unbroken is a story of a small Mississippi town in the 1930s, and the troubles that plague its black community. Picking up where its precursor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, leaves off, Mildred Taylor recounts the trials of this small community through the characters of the Logan family. More specifically, it focuses on the children of the family; Stacey, Cassie, Little Man and Christopher. This family struggles with the changing world around them, living the hard and poor life of farmers, and in the end, realizing what really matters in life. As seen through the eyes of Cassie, a preadolescent girl who is growing up in a turbulent time, the story opens with the impendin…