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