The Well by Mildred D. Taylor

            The Well in another book by Mildred D. Taylor. She often wrote about the trials and tribulations of African Americans in the early to mid-1900’s. The Logan Family has a well on their property that the whole town shares because the Logan’s are sharing people. A skunk is thrown into the well because they live in the south and are heavily oppressed by the white in the town. The Simm’s are the ones that threw it into the well and they are white and extremely jealous of the Logan’s for having the well and they don’t like that African American families can flourish in the Deep South. This book could be used during lessons of segregation and oppression of African Americans and during lessons of values and moral choices.