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The Isabelle Grant Collection
Collection
Identifier: 02-C2010.10
Abstract
Correspondence, manuscripts, diplomas, and awards belonging to Dr. Isabelle Grant, the first blind public school teacher in the State of California. The collection also contains evidence of her advocacy work overseas with the blind and her support of mainstreaming blind students with their sighted peers, as well as materials related to her 1972 Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
Dates:
Created: 1913-1975; Other: Majority of material found in 1949-1975; Other: Date acquired: 12/20/2010
The National Federation of the Blind Institutional Records
Collection
Identifier: 01-C2011.1
Abstract
Correspondence, publications, drafts, administrative files, case files, news clippings, legislative files, core documents, reference materials, speeches, fundraising materials, convention files, audio/video recordings, Braille documents, and miscellany documenting the interests, advocacy, and daily business of the national headquarters of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the oldest and largest national membership organization of blind people in the United States. Collection also...
Dates:
Created: 1940-2011, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1955-2002
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- Blind Travel 1
- Blind teachers 1
- Blind – Employment 1
- Blind – Rehabilitation 1
- Blind – Transportation 1
- Blindness – Public opinions 1
- Blindness – Social conditions 1
- Braille – Standards 1
- Braille – Study and teaching 1
- Direct-mail fund raising 1
- Discrimination against people with disabilities 1
- Discrimination in employment 1
- Mainstreaming in education. 1
- Minimum wage – Law and legislation – United States 1
- Older people with visual disabilities 1
- Parents of Blind Children 1
- People with disabilities – Civil rights – United States 1
- People with disabilities – Legal status, laws, etc. – United States 1
- Right to organize 1
- Self-help devices for people with disabilities 1
- Sheltered Workshops 1
- Social reformers 1
- Social security income program – Laws and legislation – United States 1
- Students with disabilities – Education (Secondary) – United States. 1
- Students with disabilities – Education – Africa. 1
- Students with disabilities – Education – Pakistan. 1
- Vending stands – Law and legislation – United States 1 ∧ less
- Names
- American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults 1
- American Association of Workers for the Blind 1
- American Council of the Blind 1
- American Foundation for the Blind 1
- American Printing House for the Blind (Louisville, Ky.) 1
- Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board 1
- Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (U.S.) 1
- Association for Education of the Visually Handicapped (U.S.) 1
- Blinded Veterans Association 1
- Braille Authority of North America 1
- California Council of the Blind 1
- Canadian Council of the Blind 1
- Canadian National Institute for the Blind 1
- Capps, Donald C. 1
- Cheadle, Barbara 1
- Cylke, Frank Kurt 1
- Diabetes Action Network for the Blind 1
- Friends of Libraries for Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals in North America, Inc. 1
- Gashel, James 1
- Grant, Isabelle 1
- Grant, Isabelle (Isabelle Lyon Dean Grant) 1
- International Braille and Technology Center 1
- Iowa Commission for the Blind 1
- Jacobus tenBroek Memorial Fund 1
- Jernigan Institute 1
- Jernigan, Kenneth 1
- Jernigan, Mary Ellen 1
- Kurzweil, Ray 1
- Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped 1
- Los Angeles Unified School District 1
- Matson, Floyd W. 1
- Maurer, Marc 1
- Maurer, Patricia 1
- Nagle, John F. 1
- National Accreditation Council for Agencies Serving the Blind and Visually Handicapped 1
- National Association of Blind Lawyers (U.S.) 1
- National Association of Blind Merchants 1
- National Association of Blind Rehabilitation Professionals 1
- National Association of Blind Students 1
- National Association of Guide Dog Users 1
- National Association to Promote the Use of Braille 1
- National Center for the Blind (U.S.) 1
- National Federation of the Blind. Writers' Division. 1
- National Industries for the Blind 1
- National Organization of Blind Educators 1
- National Organization of Parents of Blind Children 1
- Nobelstiftelsen 1
- Norris, Jean Dyon 1
- Omvig, Jim H. 1
- Perry, Newel 1
- Pierce, Barbara 1
- Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 1
- Rehabilitation Services Administration/Department of Health Education and Welfare 1
- Schroeder, Frederick 1
- Sundquist, Perry 1
- Wilson, Joanne 1
- World Blind Union 1
- World Council for the Welfare of the Blind 1 ∧ less
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