description: In this riveting autobiography, Baltimore janitor Leon Walter Tillage reflects on his life. He recalls his childhood as an African American sharecropper's son in 1940s North ""Once you got on a farm you could work a lifetime and never get out of debt."" His mother made soup with ""pot likker,"" the liquid left over from cooking collard greens for the Johnsons (the white owners of the farm they worked).
language: English
title: Leon's Story, Homework
titlecomplete: Leon's Story, Homework
genres: Historical, History, School, African American, Memoir, Chapter Books, Biography, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 801
publisher: Recorded Books