Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington Flying Eye Books nurturing mother provided the inspiration

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Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington Flying Eye Books nurturing mother provided the inspirationBooker dreamed of making friends with words, setting free the secrets that 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