Cora Wilson Stewart: Crusader Against Illiteracy

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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 used to be amazed that over 1,200 women and men enrolled. She quickly developed reading material for these women and men that appealed to them as an alternative of the childrens texts that most educators were the use of with adults. With the success of the Moonlight Schools, Stewart moved forward in her crusade against illiteracy; she quickly became essentially the most prominent advocate for the cause on both the national and international scene. Stewart took the fight against illiteracy at a time when it used to be an accepted a part of American life. She shocked the nation when she pointed out that 25 percent of the men who signed up for the draft in 1917 could neither read nor write. From her beginnings within the mountains of Kentucky, she went on to chair the Illiteracy Part of the World Conference of Education Associations five times; she founded the National Illiteracy Crusade in 1926. She even received one vote for president on the 1920 Democratic convention. Her crusade came in spite of the fact she used to be a victim of domestic abuse who suffered through three failed marriages. Her life reflects the challenges faced by female reformers within the early a part of the 20th century.

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