Leon Walter Tillage
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Leon Walter Tillage is the author of Leon's Story, an account of the effects of Jim Crow laws
on the lives of African American
s during the 1930s and 1940s.
Jim Crow laws
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans...
on the lives of African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
s during the 1930s and 1940s.