Leon's story / Leon Tillage, with pictures by Susan L. Roth.

LC Control No.: 96043544
Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Personal Name: Tillage, Leon Walter, 1936-
Main Title: Leon's story / Leon Tillage, with pictures by Susan L. Roth.
Edition Information: 1st ed.
Published/Created: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
Related Names: Roth, Susan L., ill.
Description: 107 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
ISBN: 0374343799 :
Summary: 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.
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.
LC Classification: F264.F86 T55 1997
Dewey Class No.: 975.6/55 B 20
Geographic Area Code: n-us-nc
Quality Code: lcac - from Amzon