Larger	Leon's Story Author: Leon Walter Tillage
	Book Information Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Book Type: Hardcover Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780374343798 - ISBN-10: 0374343799 Publication Date: 10/30/1997 Pages: 112 Reading Level: Ages 9-12

Leon Tillage grew up the son of a sharecropper in a small town in North Carolina. Told in vignettes, this is his story about walking four miles to the school for balck children, and watching a school bus full of white children go past. It's about his being forced to sit in the balcony at the movie theater, hiding all night when the Klansmen came riding, and worse. Much worse.
But it is also the story of a strong family and the love that bound them together. And, finally, it's about working to change an oppressive existence by joining the civil rights movement. Edited from recorded interviews conducted by Susan L. Roth, Leon's story will stay with readers long after they have finished his powerful account.