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Fifty cents and a dream : young Booker T. Washington  Cover Image Book Book

Fifty cents and a dream : young Booker T. Washington

Summary: "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."--Amazon.com.

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  • ISBN: 9780316086578
  • ISBN: 0316086576
  • Physical Description: print
    1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2012.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Washington, Booker T 1856-1915 Childhood and youth
African Americans Biography
Educators United States Biography

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Jabari Asim is an associate professor of writing at Emerson College and a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. He has written for the Washington Post and is the editor of the NCAAP magazine, The Crisis. He lives in Boston, with his wife and five children.

Bryan Collier began painting at the age of fifteen and earned a B.F.A. with honors from the Pratt Institute in New York. He has illustrated over 20 picture books and has won numerous awards, including three Caldecott Honors. He lives with his wife and children in Marlboro, New York.

Jabari Asim is an associate professor of writing at Emerson College and a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. He has written for the Washington Post and is the editor of the NCAAP magazine, The Crisis. He lives in Boston, with his wife and five children.

Bryan Collier began painting at the age of fifteen and earned a B.F.A. with honors from the Pratt Institute in New York. He has illustrated over 20 picture books and has won numerous awards, including three Caldecott Honors. He lives with his wife and children in Marlboro, New York.

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