Fighting for Literacy in America
by
Yvonne Honeycutt Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
The first woman elected superintendent of schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, Cora Wilson Stewart (1875--1958) realized that a major key to overcoming the illiteracy that plagued her community was to educate adult illiterates. To combat this problem, Stewart opened up her schools to adults during moonlit...