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Have you heard of how Fort Worth got a cleaned up area with new buildings to help the homeless earlier this century? This book is what events led up to that beginning.

Denver Moore (1937-2012, but this book came out in 2006) was born in Louisiana the 1930s but spent over 20 years of his live living as basically a slave--his dad and family members he lived with growing up were sharecroppers, he was kept out of school by The Man and had to work, so when he reached adulthood, he continued to do what he had always done until one day he decided to hop a train and go visit his brother. He didn't make it out there, but did spend the next number of decades homeless, except for one prison stint.

Ron Hall didn't grow up with a lot as compared with the woman he married, perhaps, but he had a roof over his head, clothes on his back, a home and went to college. He ended up as an art dealer after falling into the field as a side job, and by the time he first saw Denver, he was wealthy, albeit not in the same league as those who bought and sold paintings through him. The only reason he ever met Denver is because his wife, the late Deborah Hall, not only insisted on helping the homeless, but she wanted to do it regularly, not just on holidays, and she told Ron that he needed to become friends with Denver. It's almost needless to say that both Denver and Ron had a lot of personal growth ahead of them.

This is biographical, exposes the unlawful continuance of slavery well into the twentieth century, and doesn't whitewash anything. That said, it is also Christian in that both Ron and Denver became practicing Christians who continue(d) to work with the homeless.


PS To the 69 people or so who have shelved this as fiction, THIS IS NONFICTION.