Simms. When Big Ma, Cassie, and Stacey come back from Strawberry and when Cassie tells Uncle Hammer what Mr. Simms did to her by. She told him that Mr. Simms knocked her into the streat, Uncle Hammer didn’t like to hear that. Uncle Hammer goes to fight with Mr. Simms for doing that to Cassie. That means that Uncle Hammer cares about his family and doesn't want white people to treat them badly because of their skin color, Uncle Hammer could have been hung or put in jail for going to fight Mr. Simms. Uncle Hammer also shows courage when he drives by the Granger car on the side of the road with a car that looks exactly like Mr. Grangers car which could have had consequences too. Mr. Granger wanted the land from the Logans so he did not like the Logans. Uncle Hammer showed courage because he went to try to hurt a white man named Mr.Simms even though he knows that no one would help him fight Mr.Simms and the other white people would help