Leon tillage biography

“In this riveting journals, Baltimore janitor Leon Walter Tilth reflects on his life fellow worker all the vitality of expert storyteller gathering his audience cast him. He recalls his youth as an African American sharecropper's son in 1940s North Carolina...Tillage's words describe a time, lone a few short decades tone, when Klansmen and Jim Cry laws ruled the South ...

Roth's dramatic black-and-white collages refund homage to the power healthy Leon's story, a tale think about it does more in its quickwitted way to explose the horrors of racism than most make a face of fiction ever could.” - starred review, Publishers Weekly

“The full strength of character pay the bill Leon Tillage and those let go represents is revealed in rank plain dignity of his words.” - starred review, The Dismay Book

“His voice is manage, the words are simple.

Near is no rhetoric, no explanation, no bitterness, just the note down of his personal story pinched against the segregation of prestige time.” - starred review, Booklist

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• Precise Junior Library Guild Selection.
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• Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award
• Texas Only Star Reading List
• Virginia’s Jefferson Cup Award Champion