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 black 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.
-From the Publisher
I love Leon's story because It is a heartwarming and a very said story I could not believe what happened on Leon's birthday! it was so sad! ;)
ReplyDeleteQ: How did Leon's father die?
ReplyDeleteA: He got hit by a car driven by a group of drunken white teenagers?
Comment: I was surprised to learn how terrible black people were treated back then and that Leon's story was his autobiography.
Q:How did Leon's parents make a living?
ReplyDeleteA:They were share-croppers.
Q:What a share-cropper?
A:A person who worked on another persons field for a year and at the end of the year he would pay back the person who's land he was working on.
Q: Who would get the angriest when the Africa-Americans would march?
ReplyDeleteA:The Klansmen
I found this book to be so amazing, but sad at the same time. I can't believe that anyone was ever treated like that. Every one is equal, but it took them hundreds of years to notice that. I think that's just sad.
ReplyDeleteQ1. How did Leon's father die?
ReplyDeleteA1. Leon's father was hit by a car.
Q2. Did the young men who were in the car that ran over Leon's father go to jail?
A1. The men who ran over Leon's father did not go to jail; the one young man's father gave Leon's family $100 as an apology.
I can't believe that drunk, white, teenagers ran over Leon's father! That's just mean!
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