Leon's story
By: Leon Tillage, with pictures by Susan L. Roth.
Contributors: Roth, Susan L., ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Tillage, Leon Walter, 1936- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.; Tillage, Leon Walter, 1936-; African Americans -- North Carolina -- Fuquay-Varina -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Civil rights movements -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.; African Americans -- Biography.; Civil rights movements -- History.; North Carolina -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.; Fuquay-Varina (N.C.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; North Carolina -- Race relations.
Description: 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.