"Leon's Story is a powerful, wonderful thing!" -- Nikki GiovanniI remember that as a young boy I used to look in the mirror and I would curse my color, my...
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.
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.
. . . 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."--"Publishers Weekly."
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 20th-century and the changes that the civil rights movement helped bring about
In this gripping story, Leon tells it like it was to be a young black boy growing up in North Carolina in the 1930s. --NCSS Book Review Committee
Leon's Story