Cora Wilson Stewart: Crusader Against Illiteracy

by Willie Nelms

Book Overview

In 1911 Cora Wilson Stewart founded the Moonlight Schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, an innovative night program that taught illiterate adults to read. Hoping that 150 people would attend the first classes, Stewart was amazed that over 1,200 men and women enrolled. She quickly developed reading material for these men and women that appealed to them instead of the children's texts that most educators were using with adults. With the success of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786403349
• ISBN13: 9780786403349
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher