<Li> Little Man (Clayton Chester Logan): A meticulously neat 6 year - old first - grader, Little Man is the youngest of the Logan children . He also doesn't understand why blacks get treated so badly and does not understand why blacks and whites are different . All that he knows is that he does not like it at all . </Li> <Li> Papa (David Paul Logan): The father of the Logan children . He values his independence highly, leaving for months at a time to work on the railroad in order not to lose ownership of Logan land . </Li> <Li> Uncle Hammer: The uncle of the Logan children . He does not like racism and cannot deal with it wisely . He has enough money to buy nice clothes and even an expensive car . He sells his car later in the book so the family could keep the land . </Li> <Li> Mama (Mary Logan): The mother of four children, Stacey, Cassie, Christopher - John, and Little Man . She teaches seventh grade at Great Faith Elementary, a class that gets smaller every year when her older students leave school to work on their families' sharecropper lands, and is eventually fired when T.J. tells on her pasting over the books' covers' racist front cover charts and about their leading of the boycott of the Wallace's . </Li>

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