From the Feb. 23, 1922, issue of the Rockingham Post-Dispatch
To the question, “Can you read and write?” propounded to
every man, woman and child above the age of 10 years in North Carolina during
the census taking in 1920, 241,603 answered “no.” The percentage of illiteracy
is 43.1 as against 18.5 in 1910. Of the illiteracies, 204,492 are of voting
age. According to the figures, Edgecombe and Scotland counties are the most
illiterate.
The figures for some neighboring counties are: Richmond,
2,608; Chatham, 2,100; Moore, 1,457; Montgomery, 1,381; Scotland, 2,316;
Robeson, 7,627; Stanly, 2,327; and Anson, 3,952.
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