Leon's Story

About this book

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.

Subjects

• african americans
• african americans, biography
• african americans, biography, juvenile literature
• african americans, civil rights
• biography
• childhood and youth
• civil rights movements
• history
• juvenile literature
• north carolina, history
• north carolina, juvenile literature
• race relations