 In July 1966, he arrived in Harlem and worked that summer as a volunteer teacher in a Head Start program.The children's library he started two months later, named after Addie Mae Collins, one of the four children killed in the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church, gradually became a tuition-free school known as The Children's Storefront, welcoming all children living in the area.Today, the school thrives with an annual budget of $2.5 million and a waiting list of eight hundred children.