As a child born into slavery on a small Virginia plantation, Booker T. Washington was made to carry books for the plantation owner's children when they walked to school. His dedication to education began there. I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise, he wrote in his autobiography. Washington faced difficult circumstances to obtain his education and then went on to help...
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