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Excerpt from: New York Association For The Blind In New York many of this class of intelligent and capable human beings are worse than slaves; forced into inactivity in their poverty, or into that inactivity which brought poverty and despair. What effort had been made to help them had failed. The law did not permit a blind man to beg, neither could he steal. Unless he was a capitalist, or willing to be dependent on his friends, the almshouse was his only future. So for these people the New York Association for the blind was founded.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | New York Association For The Blind | |
| Creator: | Winifred Holt (author) | |
| Date: | 1907 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publication: | Outlook for the Blind | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | pp.44-48 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Blind; Economics; Employment; Government; Helen Keller; Labor; Labor & Commerce; New York; New York Association For The Blind; Prevention; Sensory Disability; Service Organizations; Social Welfare & Communities; State Government; Statistics; Vocational Rehabilitation; Winifred Holt; Work | |
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