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Leon's Story
by Leon Walter Tillage
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Incorporated
The son of a North Carolina sharecropper recalls the hard times faced by his family and other African-Americans in the first half of the twentieth century and the changes that the civil rights movement helped bring about.
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Let's Talk:
Ideas to Explore Together
Before you read: What are civil rights? What groups of people have had to struggle to get their civil rights in the United States? In the rest of the world?
After you read: Do you think that one person can make a difference in the way everyone does things or thinks? Is there something you would like to change in your school? Home? Country?
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