[Nfbk] FW: NFBKY.ORG Contact

[Cathy]

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From: Roberta Williams [mailto:rwilliams at aph.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 3:46 PM
To: president at nfbky.org
Subject: NFBKY.ORG Contact


Please share with appropriate lists:



THE INTEGRATION OF THE KENTUCKY SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
National Black History Month
Saturday, February 26, 2011
10 a.m.-12 noon

Join us at the Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind for a
presentation on the integration of the Kentucky School for the Blind. As
part of the program, guest speaker Louis Tutt, from the Colorado School for
the Deaf and the Blind, will talk about how schools for the blind in other
states dealt with the issue. The Colored Department of the Kentucky School
for the Blind was established in 1884 in a structure about a quarter mile
from the KSB building. The school remained divided into white and "colored"
departments until the 1950s. Considered a progressive social reform at the
time, the Colored Department nonetheless promoted racism among those least
equipped to understand it. In the seventy-five years of its existence, the
school sheltered dedicated teachers, both black and white, and students who
went on to successful lives and careers.



Special guest: Caola Warfield, of Louisville, Kentucky, who was a student at
the Kentucky School for the Blind during the period of segregation, will
speak about her experiences there.



Caola is a 1956 graduate of the school - the very last graduate of the
Colored Department.  The schools "discarded segregation of white and Negro
pupils" (as the Courier put it) for the 1955-56 school year, but the
students lived in separate buildings until the beginning of the 1956-57
school year.



Call 899-2213 by February 24 to register. Best for older teens and adults.





Roberta



Roberta Williams, 502-899-2357

Public Relations Manager

Tours, InSights Art, General Publicity



visit our web site: www.aph.org

and our YouTube site, http://www.youtube.com/user/aphftb



American Printing House for the Blind

1839 Frankfort Avenue

Louisville, KY 40206



Building Independence Since 1858




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