Adult literacy and American identity :: the Moonlight schools &amp; Americanization programs /: Samantha NeCamp.

Name: Adult literacy and American identity : the Moonlight schools &amp; Americanization programs / Samantha NeCamp.
ISBN: 9780809333592

NeCamp, Samantha,

Adult literacy and American identity : the Moonlight schools & Americanization programs / Samantha NeCamp.

NeCamp, Samantha, author.

2014

LC5147.A67 .N43 2014eb

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Title

Adult literacy and American identity : the Moonlight schools & Americanization programs / Samantha NeCamp.

Author

NeCamp, Samantha, author.

ISBN

9780809333592 (electronic book)
9780809333585

Published

Carbondale, Illinois : Southern Illinois University Press, 2014.

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English

Description

1 online resource (vii, 185 pages)

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LC5147.A67 .N43 2014eb

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374/.0124

Summary

The release of U.S. census data in 1910 sparked rhetoric declaring the nation had a literacy crisis and proclaiming illiterate citizens a threat to democratic life. While newspaper editors, industrialists, and officials in the federal government frequently placed the blame on newly arrived immigrants, a smaller but no less vocal group of rural educators and clubwomen highlighted the significant number of native-born illiterate adults in the Appalachian region. Author Samantha NeCamp looks at the educational response to these two distinct literacy narratives-the founding of the Moonlight School.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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