A man's lifelong love of books and reading overcomes the hurt of a childhood humiliation in this touching true tale related by Alabama storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham on the occasion of the Selma Public Library's 100th anniversary. As a child in the 1930s, Ernest Dawson loved books but was denied use of the library in segregated Selma. He grew up and became a teacher, and after segregation had ended, he left money in his will toward a children's wing of the Selma library so that children of all races could read and learn.
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A man's lifelong love of books and reading overcomes the hurt of a childhood humiliation in this touching true tale related by Alabama storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham on the occasion of the Selma Public Library's 100th anniversary. As a child in the 1930s, Ernest Dawson loved books but was denied use of the library in segregated Selma. He grew up and became a teacher, and after segregation had ended, he left money in his will toward a children's wing of the Selma library so that children of all races could read and learn.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1588381498. Hardcover in dust jacket. Oblong 4to. First printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the illustrator, with a little picture of a butterfly. Published for the centennial celebration of the Selma-Dallas County Public Library, the book tells the story of Ernest L. Dawson, book-lover and Selma library patron and donor. 20 pp. In protective Mylar.
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