At 50, Upward Bound Still Opens Pathway To College

Nervous but determined, the 15-year-old boy walked into a conference room in Columbus, Ohio, for a fateful interview. If it went well, perhaps he'd have a chance to be the first member of his impoverished family to attend college. That was 34 years ago, but Wil Haygood — the renowned journalist and author whose writing inspired the film "The Butler" — says he remembers it "like it was yesterday." "I knew in my heart and soul that this was a monumental moment for little Wil Haygood," he recalled. At stake was a place in Upward Bound — founded as an experimental program in 1964 as part of Lyndon B.

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