A Friendship, a Dime, and a Dream: The Biography of Willie Lee Buffington
Thembisa Mdoda - Nxumalo
Описание
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.Read more
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Introduction – The arc of the moral universe.
Chapter 1 – “The world needs men.”
Chapter 2 – “How can you have a school with no books?”
Chapter 3 – “Let me not be my brother’s keeper, but my brother’s brother.”
Chapter 4 – “Reach the unreached and help the unhelped.”
Chapter 5 – Pressed for time: husband, father, college student, library founder, grocery clerk, ordained minister.
Chapter 6 – Seminary and graduate school.
Chapter 7 – Can anybody make a difference in a world like this?”
Chapter 8 – Library building at full throttle in Georgia.
Chapter 9 – “The first and primary aim is people and libraries.”