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Leon Walter Tillage

1937–2011

United States

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Leon Walter Tillage (January 19, 1936 – October 5, 2011) was an American whose autobiographical children's book Leon's Story (1997) features the effects of Jim Crow laws in his life in the 1940s – and of the later Civil Rights Movement. Tillage was a sharecropper's son in small-town North Carolina during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation. He worked as a custodian at Park School of Baltimore for more than 30 years beginning in 1967.

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