Jacobus tenbroek wiki
Political scientist, disability activist.
Jacobus tenBroek (–) was an American disability rights activist, historian and political scientist..
Kenneth Jernigan
Leader of the National Federation of the Blind
Norman Kenneth Jernigan (November 13, 1926 – October 12, 1998) was the longtime leader of the National Federation of the Blind, the largest and oldest blind people's organization in the United States.
Early life
Kenneth Jernigan was born blind in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up on a farm in Tennessee. Beginning at the age of six, he was educated at the Tennessee School for the Blind in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jacobus tenBroek, a blind lawyer and constitutional scholar who founded the National Federation of the Blind in , published an article in the California Law.In 1945, he began attending Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tennessee and graduated cum laude three years later. In 1949, he earned a master's degree in English from Peabody College in Nashville.[citation needed]
Upon graduation from Peabody, he taught high school English at the Tennessee School for the Blind in Nashville for four years.
During this time, he joined the National Federation of the Blind of Tennessee, eventually serving as its vice-president in 1950 and President
