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1 online resource (ix, 248 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-244) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Creating "Miss Cora" -- Making of a reformer -- Moonlight campaign -- Moonlight schools and progressivism -- Nationalizing the illiteracy campaign -- National crusade against illiteracy -- A new vision. |
| Summary |
Cora Wilson Stewart (1875-1958) was an elementary school teacher and county school superintendent in eastern Kentucky who, in the fall of 1911, decided to open the classrooms in her district to adult pupils. Convinced that education could eliminate the poverty that plagued the region, she founded the Moonlight School movement, ultimately designed to combat illiteracy. The movement's motto, "Each one teach one," characterized education as the responsibility of every literate citizen. Stewart's Moonlight Schools caught on quickly, and when the state legislature created the Kentucky Illiteracy Co. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Stewart, Cora Wilson, 1875-1958.
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Stewart, Cora Wilson, 1875-1958. |
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Stewart, Cora Wilson. |
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Educators -- Kentucky -- Biography.
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Educators. |
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Kentucky. |
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Biographies.
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Literacy -- Kentucky -- History -- 20th century.
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Literacy. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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Adult education -- Kentucky -- History -- 20th century.
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Adult education. |
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Geschichte 1900-1960 |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Baldwin, Yvonne Honeycutt, 1947- Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's moonlight schools. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006 081312378X (DLC) 2005030638 (OCoLC)62172717 |
| ISBN |
0813171652 (electronic book) |
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9780813171654 (electronic book) |
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9780813138329 (electronic book) |
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0813138329 (electronic book) |
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081312378X (alkaline paper) |
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9780813123783 (alkaline paper) |
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