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A Friendship, a Dime, and a Dream
- The Biography of Willie Lee Buffington
- By: Thomas K. Perry
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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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...
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A Friendship, a Dime, and a Dream
- The Biography of Willie Lee Buffington
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 01-02-24
- Language: English
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Just Joe: Baseball's Natural, as told by his wife
- By: Perry Thomas K.
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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Just Joe: Baseball’s Natural, as told by his wife highlights the extraordinary career of South Carolina’s Joseph Jefferson Jackson, more well-known as “Shoeless Joe.” Related from the imagined perspective of his wife Katie, Just Joe examines the life of a couple devoted to baseball, and more importantly, to each other. Jackson’s career, especially his batting prowess and his involvement in the 1919 World Series “Black Sox” scandal, are well known. However, what’s largely unknown is how Joe and Katie Jackson gracefully weathered the criticism and condemnation from fans and ...
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Just Joe: Baseball's Natural, as told by his wife
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 01-24-24
- Language: English
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