Leon Walter Tillage
Leon Walter Tillage (January 19, 1936 – October 5, 2011) was an African American whose autobiographical children's book Leon's Story (1997) features the effects of Jim Crow laws on the lives of African Americans during the 1930s and 1940s – and of the later Civil Rights movement.[1]
Tillage was a sharecropper's son in small-town North Carolina during the "Jim Crow" era of racial segregation.[1] He worked as a custodian at Park School of Baltimore for more than 30 years beginning 1967.[2] Leon's Story is an oral history based on interviews of Tillage by Susan L. Roth, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1997.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 "Publisher description for Leon's story {...}". Library of Congress (loc.gov). Retrieved 2014-09-28. With linked LC catalog record LCCN 96-43544.
- ↑ "Remembering Leon Tillage". Lena R. Liberman. The Postscript. October 21, 2011. Park School of Baltimore (parkschool.net). Retrieved 2014-09-28.
External links
- Leon Walter Tillage at Library of Congress Authorities, with 1 catalog records
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