ILLUSTRATIONS

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FACING PAGE

They Came Carrying Babes in Arms16

Young Men and Women Whose Chance Had Come18

Arithmetic Was a Popular Study28

A Man Aged 87 Entered and Put to Shame the Record of the Proud School Girl of 86 of the Year Before38

They Were Schoolmates, and That is a Tie That Binds44

Letter From a Home Department Pupil45

A Class of Moonlight School Pupils All Past 50 Years of Age48

Letter Written After Three Lessons80

Letter Written After Six Lessons80

Letter From Pupil After Attending Full Session of Moonlight School80

Letter From Man of Draft Age94

Letter From a War Veteran108

Letter From a Student in Prison118

Letter From an Alabama Pupil124

Letter From an Alabama Pupil125

Letter From a North Carolina Pupil126

A North Carolina Moonlight School128

Oklahoma Moonlight School130

Letter to the State Superintendent of Schools, Oklahoma130

A Class of Mexican Mothers in California Learning to Read and Write132

Letter From New Mexico Moonlight School132

Letter From a Georgia Moonlight School134

Jewish Mothers in New York Improving Their Education140

Mother of Twelve Children Learns to Read and Write190

Alex Webb, Aged 98, Who Learned to Read and Write in the Moonlight Schools192