Great Read

All the Days Past, All the Days to Come

Written by: Mildred D. Taylor

This book, All the Days Past, All the Days to Come, is the tenth book in Mildred D. Taylor’s saga about the Logan family from Mississippi. I did not realize it is the last book in a series when I checked it out in audio on the Libby app through the Pines Library system. It is a great book, even if you haven’t read any of the others in the series. I do want to go back and read the others now.

This story takes place in 1944 through the 1960’s. It vividly describes racism and the civil rights movement in America, and how so many lives were effected. This story looks through the eyes of the Logan family, and in particular Cassie Logan.

As a young woman now, Cassie has moved from Mississippi to Ohio to California to Law School in Boston. Later she finds herself back home in Mississippi participating in voter registration. Some of the things we consider to be historic events of the century, Cassie is witness to, including the Great Migration north and the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, and the impact of Martin Luther King Jr.

Mildred D. Taylor certainly writes from the heart and it comes through in her impactful, historical story of segregation and racism in the United States.

LB