List of Blind People - Activists and Organizers of The Blind

Activists and Organizers of The Blind

  • Tilly Aston - Founder of the Victorian Association of Braille Writers.
  • Louis Braille - Known for Braille.
  • Francis Joseph Campbell - Anti-slavery campaigner and co-founder of the Royal National College for the Blind
  • Kenneth Jernigan - Long-time leader of the National Federation of the Blind.
  • Helen Keller - American deaf-blind writer, lecturer, and activist.
  • Juan Carlos González Leiva - Cuban lawyer, who founded the Fraternity of the Independent Blind of Cuba and the Cuban Foundation of Human Rights. He has been harassed, imprisoned and tortured by the communist regime.
  • Sabriye Tenberken - Braille Without Borders co-founder.

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