Ruffin, Willie

Willie Ruffin grew-up in a small town in North Carolina with a population of 2,000 people. His life experiences there were challenging to say the least. Born in a family of 15 children and he was the 7th born. He was not privileged like some children growing-up there. He lived and worked on farms as a means of survival. His parents made an agreement with a farmer that the children will help on the farm during planting and harvest time. This afforded them the ability to have a place to live. Even though the father worked as factory worker, he was not getting paid enough to manage the family's f...