A Friendship, a Dime, and a Dream
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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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| 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. |
| Note | Unavailable |