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LEON'S STORY, Tillage, Leon Walter ~~~ $15.00 OUT OF PRINT $6.95 pb 112 pgs. b&w
artwork. 1997. i
Upper elementary, middle school, high school. AR 4.9 UG. My name is Leon Walter Tillage. I was born on January 19, 1936... so begins Leon's story about growing up the son of a sharecropper farmer in a small town (Fuquay) in North Carolina. Leon's story is also about a strong family and the love that bound them together amid cruelty and tragedy. And, finally, it's about working to change an oppressive existence by joining the protests of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil rights movement. Mr. Tillage's book also has won several awards, including a Boston Globe-Horn Book award, a Smithsonian magazine Notable Book award, and an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults award. "With quiet restraint, Tillage tells of growing up black in the Jim Crow South...There is no rhetoric, no commentary, no bitterness...This quiet drama will move readers of all ages." —Starred review, Booklist "In this riveting autobiography, Baltimore janitor Leon Walter Tillage reflects on his life with all the vitality of a storyteller gathering his audience around him...Tillage's words describe a time, only a few short decades back, when Klansmen and Jim Crow laws ruled the South." —Starred review, Publishers Weekly "The story has great power." —New York Times Book Review Curriculum Applications: 3rd, 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies - biography, technology, Jim Crow/depression era; 4th-12th Grade Language Arts/English |
