CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.The People Who Gave the Moonlight Schools to the World[1]
II.The Origin of the Moonlight Schools[8]
III.Surprises of the First Session[14]
IV.Pioneer Methods in Dealing with Illiterates[21]
V.A Moonlight School Institute[32]
VI.The Results of the Second Session[38]
VII.To Wipe Out Illiteracy the Teacher’s Goal[47]
VIII.The Movement Extends to the Whole State of Kentucky[57]
IX.The First Text-Books for Adult Illiterates[70]
X.Moonlight Schools in War Time[81]
XI.Moonlight Schools in Reconstruction Days[106]
XII.The Illiteracy Crusade Spreads from State to State[124]
XIII.The Purpose of the Moonlight Schools[145]
XIV.The Need of Moonlight Schools[167]
XV.The Call of the Illiterates[189]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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]

INTRODUCTION