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The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is an American non-profit organization for people with vision loss.AFB's objectives include conducting research to advance change, promoting knowledge and understanding, and shaping policies and practices.
The American Council of the Blind was formed out of the dissolution of the Braille Free Press Association in 1961. Braille Free Press had been set up in 1959. It was highly critical of the American Foundation for the Blind , and the ACB was formed as an alternative to it.
American Foundation for the Blind; American Printing House for the Blind; ... Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired;
The National Federation of the Blind headquarters and Jernigan Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1940 sixteen people met in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to develop a constitution that would unite organizations of blind people in seven states (California, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) in a national federation that would serve as a vehicle for collective ...
The United States Association of Blind Athletes (USABA) is an organization founded in 1976 to increase the number and quality of world-class athletic opportunities for Americans who are blind or visually impaired.
Adelia M. Hoyt was a vocal advocate for self-help by the blind community. "Our most successful workshops and homes have been planned and supervised by sightless persons," she explained, and "every organized effort for the welfare of the blind should have on its board of directors some competent sightless person or persons" to prevent "many a sad mistake."