Leon's story /
Leon Walter Tillage ; collage art by Susan L. Roth.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c1997.
- 107 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
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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.
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