Name: Ernest's Gift
Author: Kathryn Tucker Windham
ISBN: 9781588381491

Published:

May-2004 (Hardcover)
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Main Genre:

General Fiction
Pages:

20
Age Level:

04-08
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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.