A Friendship, a Dime, and a Dream by Thomas K Perry

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A Friendship, a Dime, and a Dream by Thomas K Perry

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A Friendship, a Dime, and a Dream by 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.

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ISBN 13 9781929763702
ISBN 10 1929763700
Title A Friendship, a Dime, and a Dream
Author Thomas K Perry
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pocol Press
Year published 2016-12-12
Number of pages 210
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.