After slavery was abolished in the US. One of the greatest desires among the newly freed slaves, was to obtain and eduction. They believed that if they could obtain an education, they would get wealthy. The black schools were filled with people of all ages. There were night schools that people would attend after having worked ten hour days. The desire to learn was so huge that if could read even in the slightest, you could be appointed to teach. There were hundreds of older black people who's dreams were to be learn to read the bible before they died. Learned that from the book up from slavery. Booker T. Washington. :) dreaming-irwin