| A Friendship, a Dime, and a Dream: The Biography of Willie Lee Buffington Contributor(s): Perry, Thomas K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1929763700 ISBN-13: 9781929763702 Publisher: Pocol Press OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2016960905 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.63 lbs) 210 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |