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.
The remarkable Buffington, relatively unknown, becomes a civil rights icon in this powerful story of faith and good works..
Buffington\'s work ethic and empathy for his fellow man eventually snowballs into over one hundred Faith Cabin Libraries throughout South Carolina and Georgia.
Buffington also works hard to become highly educated himself, parlaying his studies into a professorship.
As a dirt poor textile mill worker, he secures a Dime to purchase five stamps, sending letters off requesting books for uneducated African Americans.
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.
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
