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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor="#DEE0E2" lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Good morning,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In case you don’t already receive this newsletter I thought I’d share it with the chapter as it contains some interesting information about a new documentary on Helen Keller and audio description… Full disclosure: I served as a consultant to this documentary, and depending on how the final edits go, may be one of the talking heads appearing in the film. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Brian Miller<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>President<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>GAC/NFBV<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Disability Museum [mailto:info=disabilitymuseum.org@mail81.suw111.mcdlv.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Disability Museum<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 06, 2018 9:37 AM<br><b>To:</b> brianrmiller88@gmail.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Disability History News<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#DEE0E2;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in;background:#DEE0E2;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:-2.25pt;margin-right:-2.25pt'><tr><td width=599 valign=top style='width:449.25pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#43404D'><a href="http://mailchi.mp/disabilitymuseum/disability-history-news-doyj59mp7x-3323413?e=f31ecac76c" target="_blank"><span style='color:#43404D'>View this email in your browser</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in;background:white;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%' id=templateHeader><tr><td valign=top style='border:none;border-top:solid #A6BFC9 6.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=M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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=200 height=283 src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/49a96f7df054655f976a850e2/images/bb7c3f67-513c-4c91-ae84-0e2e5ce91d2f.jpg" align=left v:shapes="_x0000_s1029"><![endif]><em><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#43404D'>Hidden Figure Wheels In:</span></b></em><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#43404D'> Today we honor a little-known civil rights leader, the Reverend Cecil A. Ivory, Sr., NAACP chapter leader in the early 1960s and pastor of the Hermon Presbyterian Church in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Ivory was from Arkadelphia, AR, but in the 1940s he attended Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, NC. Later he settled with his family in Rock Hill. Cecil Ivory survived a significant back injury as a child, but he fell off the back of a pick-up truck in 1956, and subsequently used a wheelchair for mobility.  Continue Reading on <a href="https://straightaheadpictures.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49a96f7df054655f976a850e2&id=95e3148ded&e=f31ecac76c" target="_blank"><span style='color:#4CAAD8'>DHM's Facebook Page.</span></a><br>  <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td style='padding:13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td style='border:none;border-top:solid #222222 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 0in 0in 0in;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;margin-left:-2.25pt;margin-right:-2.25pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td width=600 valign=top style='width:6.25in;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break:break-word'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#43404D'><img border=0 width=142 height=64 id="_x0000_i1029" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/49a96f7df054655f976a850e2/images/8a48f5f4-ebe6-4e3b-b54b-554571e2e3c3.png"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style='line-height:normal'><a name=mctoc5></a><span class=mc-toc-title><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Disability History/Archives Consortium</span></span><span style='font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#43404D'><br>You can check out the latest issue of the <a href="https://straightaheadpictures.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49a96f7df054655f976a850e2&id=22d8da832d&e=f31ecac76c" target="_blank"><span style='color:#4CAAD8'>Disability History Archives Consortium's newsletter.</span></a> This issue features happenings in Collections at the National Federation of the Blind, an exhibit about the Deaf communities involvement in NASA, work ongoing at the National Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, at the Perkins School for the Blind, and a research request from the indomitable Beth Haller. To send images or request to receive the newsletter, contact <a href="mailto:mhudson@aph.org?subject=Please%20add%20me%20to%20DH%2FAC%20Newsletter" target="_blank"><span style='color:#4CAAD8'>Micheal Hudson</span></a> at the American Printing House for the Blind. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td style='padding:13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt;min-widt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