Literacy Heroines

Book excerpt: “With Literacy Heroines, Alice Horning offers us the profiles and contributions of some major literacy sponsors whose literacy labors helped shape American education, social activism, and culture from the turn of the century to the early quarter of the twentieth century. These women understood the potent force of critical reading and writing, and Horning underscores how their literacy efforts act as exemplary models for our own twenty-first century literacy sponsorships.”--Mark McBeth, Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and English Ph.D. Program, The Graduate Center/CUNY.