[Colorado-talk] Happy 75th Birthday NfB!

[Ann Cunningham]

75 years ago today Dr. tenBroek challenged the blind to play in the mainsteam kind of way.  So let me introduce to you the the one and only NFB of Dr. tenB's Lively Hearts Club Band!

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> On Nov 16, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Dan Burke via Colorado-talk <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Today is the day - the 75th anniversary of the founding of the
> National Federation of the Blind, NOvember 16, 1940 in Wilkes-Barre,
> Pennsylvania.  Julie and I had the opportunity and privelege to attend
> the NFB of Pennsylvania's convention this weekend, held in the same
> hotel in Wilkes-Barre.  The following article appeared in the local
> paper on Sunday morning:
> 
> Statewide blind group meets at birthplace
> ERIC MARK
> Published: November 15, 2015
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> Photo: Christopher Dolan, License: N/A, Created: 2015:11:14 18:13:45
> 
> National Federation of the Blind of Pennsylvania President James
> Antonacci, center, chats with Rep. Matt Cartwright's District Director
> Bob Morgan, left,
> and state Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski at a meeting of the Pennsylvania
> chapter of the National Federation of the Blind at Genetti's in
> Wilkes-Barre on Saturday,
> Nov. 14. Christopher Dolan / Staff Photographer
> 
> Photo: N/A, License: N/A, Created: 2015:11:14 18:20:34
> 
> National Federation of the Blind representative Barbara Pierce,
> center, shares a laugh with guests at a meeting of the Pennsylvania
> chapter of the National
> Federation of the Blind at Genetti's in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday, Nov.
> 14. Christopher Dolan / Staff Photographer
> 
> WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania chapter of the National Federation of
> the Blind held its annual convention this weekend at the spot where
> the organization
> was born in 1940: Best Western Genetti Hotel & Conference Center.
> 
> In November 1940, a group of 16 advocates for the blind, from seven
> states, gathered in Wilkes-Barre at the hotel that is now Genetti’s.
> They formed a
> constitution that created the National Federation of the Blind, or
> NFB, which grew to be the largest organization led by blind people in
> the nation.
> 
> To mark the 75th anniversary of the federation’s founding, the
> Pennsylvania chapter chose Wilkes-Barre as the site for this year’s
> state convention, said
> Lynn Heitz, the chapter’s first vice president.
>