From back cover: My name is Leon Walter Tillage. I was born on January 19, 1936... I remember that as a young boy I used to look in the mirror and I would curse my color, my blackness...
In this riveting biography...Tillage recalls his childhood as an African American sharecropper's son in 1940's North Carolina. Roth's dramatic black-and-white collages pay homage to the power of Leon's story, a tale that does more in its gentle way to expose the horrors of racism than most works of fiction ever could.
In this riveting biography...Tillage recalls his childhood as an African American sharecropper's son in 1940's North Carolina. Roth's dramatic black-and-white collages pay homage to the power of Leon's story, a tale that does more in its gentle way to expose the horrors of racism than most works of fiction ever could.
