Books in the traveling library of the Kentucky Library Commission. Photo by H. A. Gretter. KHS Collections.
By an act approved March 17, 1914, the General Assembly created the Kentucky Illiteracy Commission to “research, collect data and statistics, and procure surveys of any and all communities” and report the results to the General Assembly. The commission was to consist of five members, “both men and women.” One of the initial members of the commission was Cora Wilson Stewart, founder of Moonlight Schools for adult illiterates in eastern Kentucky and one of the persons who had promoted the formation of a state illiteracy commission.
Books in the traveling library of the Kentucky Library Commission. Photo by H. A. Gretter. KHS Collections.
