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Nelms, Willie – 1997
This book is a biography of Cora Wilson Stewart, a Rowan County, Kentucky, school superintendent who rose to prominence with the establishment of the Moonlight Schools for adults with low literacy levels in 1911. It presents the details of her Kentucky crusade against illiteracy, then examines the personal part of her life as well as her later…
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