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Leon's Story

by Leon Walter Tillage

Juvenile literatureBiographyRace relationsAfrican AmericansHistoryCivil rights movementsChildhood and youthAfrican americans, biography, juvenile literature

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.

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Book data: Open Library