Career
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 1967. Leon"s Story is an oral history based on interviews of Tillage by Susan L. Roth, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1997.
