illiteracy movement
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| Most notable female advocate for adult literacy | Cora Wilson Stewart
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| God-given destiny | Empower those adults who can't read
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| Location of birthplace, 1875 | Farmers, Kentucky
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| Where her teacher training began | Morehead Normal School
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| Name of the grassroots movement for adults to attend | Moonlight Schools
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| What year the school opened | 1911
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| How many original attendees | 1200
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| Materials used to teach reading | Rowan County Messenger, newspaper
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| Graduation requirement | To write a letter and read the first lesson
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| The age she became Superintendent of Schools | 26 years old
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| President of what local educational association | Kentucky Educational Association
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| Book series that highlighted student's letters | Country Life Readers, First book 1915
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| Selective Service findings during WW1 on the number military soldiers that couldn't read | 30,000 men
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| The name of the book to teach illiterate military recruits | The Soldiers First Book
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| Delegate to which National Convention | Democratic National Convention, 1920
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| Who elected her to chair the national Advisory Committee on Illiteracy | Pres. Herbert Hoover
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| Estimated number of illiterate Americans today | 32 million
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