[PEN-L:2738] Illiteracy

[SHAWGI TELL]

        Decline in Illiteracy in the Adult African American
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                Population of the United States
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DATE            PERCENT ILLITERATE
----            -------------------
1863            93
1870            80
1890            56
1900            44
1910            30
1920            23
1930            16
1940            11
1950            10

        Joel Spring, "The Intersection of Cultures. Multicultural education
                in the United States," 1995, p. 16.


Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
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