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A Friendship, a Dime, and a Dream: The Biography of W.L. Buffington |
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By Thomas K. Perry |
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ISBN: 978-1-929763-70-2
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Price: $17.95 |
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Shipping: $4.00
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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.
A Friendship, a Dime, and a Dream is also available as an e-book for Amazon Kindle. |
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