| A | B |
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| Cassie Logan | Main character, person telling the story, young girl, lives in Mississippi. |
| Stacey Logan | Oldest Logan child, 13, friends with TJ |
| Papa Logan | David is name, father, works on railroad, owns farm with Uncle Hammer |
| Mama Logan | Name is Mary, teaches school, gets fired for teaching incorrect history lessons |
| Big Ma Logan | Name is Caroline, lives with family, is grandmother |
| Harlan Granger | tries to get property back from Logans, lives in the past |
| Jeremy Simms | white boy who tries to be friends with Logan children |
| Lillian Jean Simms | jeremy's older, stuck-up, racist sister, treats Cassie badly |
| R.W. and Melvin Simms | Oldest Simms children, frame TJ for murder |
| Kaleb, Thurston, Dewberry Wallace | Owners of the Wallace store, the men that Mr. Morrison beat up |
| LT Morrison | the man Papa brings home from the railroad to help on the farm |
| Mr. Jamison | White lawyer who helps the family |
| TJ Avery | student who frames Mama and gets her fired and person framed for murdering the Barnetts. |
| Hammer Logan | hot-tempered uncle to Cassie who lives in Chicago |
| The Berrys | the people burned by the night riders |
| Night Riders | white men who roam the countryside at night to terrorize blacks |
| Racial Injustice, prejudice | the theme of the novel |
| Robbing Barnett's mercantile | what TJ, RW, and Melvin did |
| Great Faith Elementary and Secondary School | the name of the school Cassie attends |
| Jefferson Davis County School | the school the white students attend |
| 1933 | The year mentioned in the book |
| The Great Depression | the time period of the novel |
| Reversed Flags | symbol of reversed loyalties of the people |
| New Coat | what stacey got and gave away |
| Bus | ran Logans off road every chance it got |
| big mud hole | how the kids got revenge on the bus |
| Vicksburg | where the Logans and others shopped to boycott the Wallace store |
| Boycott | The Logans organized this to "get back" at the Wallaces |
