This book, "Cherished in the Byways", is intended to inspire poor and abused young people to succeed, even if support from family is not available. I have written about an experience: As a young African-American--one of eleven children whose father never earned more that fifty-five dollars in any week, I arrived at Chicago's Union Station with a duffel bag containing everything I owned in this world and twenty-eight dollars in cash. I knew no one...