Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

In Chapter One, Little Man refuses his textbook. When he takes his book back to his desk, he opens it, and sees something inside it that makes him throw it on the floor and stomp on it. Cassie looks inside her book and sees columns listing the book's condition and the race of the student for every year from 1922-1933. This is the first year that the book's condition is listed as "very poor" and the first time that the race of the student is listed as "nigra" instead of "white.