Moonlight School

Moonlight Schools were a program of educational offerings for illiterate adults in Kentucky in the early 1900s which spread to many other U.S. states.

The school supposedly only operated on moonlit nights so people could get there and home safely which gave the project its name.

[2]: 24 [3] Once students had mastered basic reading they could also learn other subjects which included "history, civics, English, health and sanitation, geography, home economics, agriculture, horticulture and good roads.

The Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs and the Colonial Dames led a fundraising and letter writing effort and ministers observed "No Illiteracy Sunday" in their churches.

[6] Stewart became concerned during World War I when Selective Service determined that 700,000 men were illiterate, so she developed The Soldier’s First Book to help teach military recruits to read.