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Ernest's Gift — Kathryn Tucker Windham

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  • Hardcover
  • May-2004
  • JuneBug Books
  • ISBN: 1588381498
  • ISBN13: 9781588381491

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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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