Leon's Story

Name: Leon's Story
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ISBN: 9780374443306

ISBN-10: 0374443300

ISBN-13: 9780374443306

Edition: N/A

Authors: Leon Walter Tillage, Susan L. Roth, L. Tillage

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"Leon's Story is a powerful, wonderful thing!" -- Nikki Giovanni I remember that as a young boy I used to look in the mirror and I would curse my color, my blackness. But in those days they didn't call you "black." They didnt say "minority." They called us "colored" or "nigger." Leon Tillage grew up the son of a sharecropper in a small town in North Carolina. Told in vignettes, this is his story about walking four miles to the school for balck children, and watching a school bus full of white children go past. It's about his being forced to sit in the balcony at the movie theater, hiding all night when the Klansmen came riding, and worse. Much worse. But it is also the story of a strong…

Book details

List price: $8.99
Publisher: Square Fish
Publication date: 9/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 7.50" wide x 5.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Leon Walter Tillage lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he has worked for thirty years as a custodian at The Park School. He is the author of Leon's Story, illustrated by Susan L. Roth.