Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington

Type

Book

Authors

Jabari Asim

ISBN 10

0316086576

ISBN 13

9780316086578

Tags

1800s, 1900s, Historical, Multicultural, African-American

Description

Booker dreamedof making friends with words,setting free the secretsthat lived in books. Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five-hundred-mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton Institute, taking his first of many steps towards a college degree. When he arrived, he had just fifty cents in his pocket and a dream about to come true. The young slave who once waited outside of the schoolhouse would one day become a legendary educator of freedmen. Award-winning artist Bryan Collier captures the hardship and the spirit of one of the most inspiring figures in American history, bringing to life Booker T. Washington's journey to learn, to read, and to realize a dream. - from Amzon

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