History Creator / MildredDTaylor

* DistantFinale: The epilogue of ''All The Days Past, All The Days To Come'' skips ahead from the 1963 all the way to [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2009]], as a now elderly Cassie buses to Washington to watch the inauguration of UsefulNotes/BarackObama.

* SequelDisplacement: Most people don't realize that ''Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry'' is actually a sequel to the less well known ''Song of the Trees'', the actual first book written in the series.

** Solomon Bradley, Taylor's FirstLove from ''The Road to Memphis, becomes closely associated with CORE, and both he and Little Man end up participating in freedom rides. Cassie and the other siblings end up initially planning to just follow along without directly participating in order to keep an eye on him, but after Little Man gets arrested, they choose to protest too and end up getting arrested as well.

* DistantFinale: The epilogue of ''All The Days Past, All The Days To Come'' skips ahead from the 60s all the way to [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2009]] as a now elderly Cassie buses to Washington to watch the inauguration of UsefulNotes/BarackObama.

** In general, the books are based on stories Taylor was told from her relatives about Mississippi as she was growing up in Ohio, as while she was born in the state her family had fled to Ohio when she was three weeks old.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: During ''All the Things Past'':

* DistantFinale: The final chapter of ''All The Days Past, All The Days To Come'' skips ahead from the 60s all the way to [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2009]] as a now elderly Cassie buses to Washington to watch the inauguration of UsefulNotes/BarackObama.

* AuthorAvatar: In ''All The Days Past, All The Days To Come'', one of Cassie's nieces who listens to her stories about growing up in the South is a girl named Taylor.

** Solomon Bradley, Taylor's FirstLove from ''The Road to Memphis, becomes closely associated with CORE, and both he and Little Man end up participating in freedom rides.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: Taylor's niece Rie ends up being amongst the 52 students arrested alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960 Atlanta sit-in protest.

** In general, the books are based on stories Taylor was told from her relatives about Mississippi as she was growing up in Ohio.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Song of the Trees'' is told via rotating POV as opposed to the single viewpoint characters of her later books.

* AuthorAvator: In ''All The Days Past, All The Days To Come'', one of Cassie's nieces who listens to her stories about growing up in the South is a girl named Taylor.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Paul-Edward Logan, the protagonist of ''The Land'' and grandfather of main protagonist Cassie Logan, is a man of mixed white and Black-Native American descent whose white father was a slaveowner. Taylor's own great-grandfather was a man of the exact same background.

Mildred [=DeLois=] Taylor (born September 13, 1943) is an award winning African-American children's author whose works focus on life in the Deep South and the struggles faced by African-Americans during the early 20th Century.

* SequelDisplacement: Most people don't realize that ''Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry'' is actually a sequel to the less well known ''Song of the Trees'' the actual first book written in the series.

* DistantFinale: The final chapter of ''All The Days Past, All The Days Past'' skips ahead from the 60s all the way to [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2009]] as a now elderly Cassie buses to Washington to watch the inauguration of UsefulNotes/BarackObama.

* DistantFinale: The final chapter of ''All The Days Past, All The Days Past'' skips ahead from the 60s all the way to 2009 as a now elderly Cassie buses to Washington to watch the inauguration of UsefulNotes/BarackObama.

* DistantFinale: The final chapter ''All The Days Past, All The Days Past'' skips ahead from the 60s all the way to 2009 as a now elderly Cassie buses to Washington to watch the inauguration of UsefulNotes/BarackObama.

* CrapsackWorld: Taylor pulls no punches on how terrible the South was for anyone who was Black in the 1930s, with the Logans having to constantly deal with the inequities of racism and the knowledge that white people can do just about whatever they want to them and get away with it. ''Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry'' has in its early chapters Cassie visiting Mr. Berry, a Black man who was burned alive by the Simms

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Paul-Edward Logan, the protagonist of ''The Land'' and great-grandfather of main protagonist Cassie Logan, is a man of mixed white and Black-Native American descent whose white father was a slaveowner. Taylor's own great-grandfather was a man of the exact same background.

Mildred D. Taylor (born September 13, 1943) is an award winning African-American children's author whose works focus on life in the Deep South and the struggles faced by African-Americans during the early 20th Century.

* ''Literature/TheFriendship (1987)
* ''Literature/MississippiBridge (1990)
* ''Literature/TheRoadToMemphis (1992)
* ''Literature/TheWellDavidsStory (1995)
* ''Literature/TheLand (2001)
* ''Literature/AllTheDaysPastAllTheDaysToCome (2020)

* CrapsackWorld: Taylor pulls no punches on how terrible the South was for anyone who was Black in the 1930s, with the Logans having to constantly deal with the inequities of racism and the knowledge that white people can do just about whatever they want to them and get away with it.
* SequelGap: ''All The Days Past, All The Days To Come'' was released in 2020, 19 years after ''The Land'' was published, and 29 years after ''The Road To Memphis'', the last chronological entry in the entries, was published.

* GrandFinale: ''All the Days Past, All the Days to Come'' is the last book in the Logan family saga, closing the tale of Cassie's story.
* {{Prequel}}: While the second to last book in the Logan family saga in terms of publication, ''The Land'' serves as the the origin story for the Logans.