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Excerpt from: An Answer Industrial training -- a preparation for good citizenship. The Commonwealth has about four thousand handicapped by partial or total blindness, of whom eighty-six per cent. are over twenty-one years old. Only a small number are able to push their way to success as can the seeing. They must be helped to help themselves. Not only the individual welfare but political economy sustains our plea.... | Read Full Text |
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Title: | An Answer | |
Creator: | n/a | |
Date: | Circa 1903 | |
Format: | Pamphlet | |
Source: | Perkins School for the Blind | |
Keywords: | Advocacy; Blind; Boston, MA; Employment; Government; Helen Keller; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Legislation; Massachusetts; Massachusetts Commission For The Blind; Poverty; Sensory Disability; Social Welfare & Communities; Vocational Rehabilitation; Work | |
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Note: | From Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: Massachusetts Adult Blind, 1886-1906 |