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Illuminating Jim Crow (page 3)


Cover art for FORTY ACRES AND MAYBE A MULE
CHILDREN'S
Released: Nov. 1, 1998

"Pascal, who has a withered arm and leg, is an inveterate punster, which adds levity to an otherwise grim story. (bibliography) (Fiction. 9-12)"
From Robinet (The Twins, the Pirates, and the Battle of New Orleans, 1997, etc.), an earnest look at the human face and the human cost of Reconstruction in the South. Read full book review >
Cover art for LEON'S STORY
CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 29, 1997
by Leon Walter Tillage, illustrated by Susan L. Roth

 Tillage, a black custodian in a Baltimore private school, reminisces about his childhood as a sharecropper's son in the South, and his youth as a civil-rights protester. Read full book review >