Tillage, Leon, 1936-

Leon's story / Leon Tillage, with pictures by Susan L. Roth. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997. - 107 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

The son of a North Carolina sharecropper recalls the hard times faced by his family and other African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century and the changes that the civil rights movement helped bring about.

0374343799 : $14.00 ($18.95 Can.)

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Tillage, Leon, 1936- --Childhood and youth--Juvenile literature.
Tillage, Leon, 1936-


Afro-Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature.--North Carolina--Fuquay-Varina
Civil rights movements--History--Juvenile literature.--North Carolina--20th century
Afro-Americans--Biography.
Civil rights movements--History.


North Carolina--Race relations--Juvenile literature.
Fuquay-Varina (N.C.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
North Carolina--Race relations.

F264.F86 / T55 1997

975.6/55 B