Leon's Story by Tillage, Leon Walter
Leon's Story by Tillage, Leon Walter

Leon's Story

Leon's Story is a powerful, wonderful thing -- Nikki Giovanni I remember that as a young boy...
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Author: Leon Walter Tillage
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Leon's Story by Tillage, Leon Walter

Leon's Story

$123.77
Leon's Story by Tillage, Leon Walter

Leon's Story

$123.77
Author: Leon Walter Tillage
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 black 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 family and the love that bound them together. And, finally, it's about working to change an oppressive existence by joining the civil rights movement. Edited from recorded interviews conducted by Susan L. Roth, Leon's story will stay with readers long after they have finished his powerful account.

Leon's Story is the winner of the 1998 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction.

Author: Leon Walter Tillage
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 09/01/2000
Pages: 107
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.14w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9780374443306
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 25238 / Leon's Story


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/17/2000 pg. 198

About the Author

Leon Walter Tillage lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he has worked for thirty years as a custodian at The Park School.

Susan L. Roth's many picture books include Ishi's Tale of Lizard, which was an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. She lives in Great Neck, New York.
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