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A Friendship, a Dime, and a Dream
Thomas K Perry
A Friendship, a Dime, and a Dream
Thomas K Perry
A chance meeting between a young white boy and an African American community mentor leads to an altruistic obsession in this one-of-a-kind biography. Willie Lee Buffington (1908-1988), even as a young lad, never understood the Jim Crow mentality of Deep South America in the first half of the twentieth century. As a dirt poor textile mill worker, he secures a dime to purchase five stamps, sending letters off requesting books for uneducated African Americans. Buffington also works hard to become highly educated himself, parlaying his studies into a professorship. Buffington's work ethic and empathy for his fellow man eventually snowballs into over one hundred Faith Cabin Libraries throughout South Carolina and Georgia. The remarkable Buffington, relatively unknown, becomes a civil rights icon in this powerful story of faith and good works.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 12, 2016 |
ISBN13 | 9781929763702 |
Publishers | Pocol Press |
Pages | 210 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 11 mm · 285 g |
Language | English |
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