| The Spelling Match | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE |
| They Came Carrying Babes in Arms | [16] |
| Young Men and Women Whose Chance Had Come | [18] |
| Arithmetic Was a Popular Study | [28] |
| A Man Aged 87 Entered and Put to Shame the Record of the Proud School Girl of 86 of the Year Before | [38] |
| They Were Schoolmates, and That is a Tie That Binds | [44] |
| Letter From a Home Department Pupil | [45] |
| A Class of Moonlight School Pupils All Past 50 Years of Age | [48] |
| Letter Written After Three Lessons | [80] |
| Letter Written After Six Lessons | [80] |
| Letter From Pupil After Attending Full Session of Moonlight School | [80] |
| Letter From Man of Draft Age | [94] |
| Letter From a War Veteran | [108] |
| Letter From a Student in Prison | [118] |
| Letter From an Alabama Pupil | [124] |
| Letter From an Alabama Pupil | [125] |
| Letter From a North Carolina Pupil | [126] |
| A North Carolina Moonlight School | [128] |
| Oklahoma Moonlight School | [130] |
| Letter to the State Superintendent of Schools, Oklahoma | [130] |
| A Class of Mexican Mothers in California Learning to Read and Write | [132] |
| Letter From New Mexico Moonlight School | [132] |
| Letter From a Georgia Moonlight School | [134] |
| Jewish Mothers in New York Improving Their Education | [140] |
| Mother of Twelve Children Learns to Read and Write | [190] |
| Alex Webb, Aged 98, Who Learned to Read and Write in the Moonlight Schools | [192] |