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Our Duties To The Blind
The blind are in three classes: first, blind children, who need a common school education; second, the aged and the infirm blind, who need to be tenderly cared for; third, the able-bodied blind, who ought to work....
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Title: Our Duties To The Blind
From: Out Of The Dark
Creator: Helen Keller (author)
Date: 1920
Format: Article
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company, New York
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: pp.125-140
Keywords: Advocacy; Blind; Boston, MA; Children; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Education; Employment; Government; Helen Keller; Institutions; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Massachusetts; Policy; Schools; Sensory Disability; Social Welfare & Communities; Work
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy
Note: Presented at the first annual meeting of the Massachusetts Association for Promoting the Interests of the Adult Blind, January 5, 1904, in Boston.


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