[Nfbf-l] Article about White Cane Safety Day

Sun Oct 23 03:04:38 UTC 2016

Hi Doreen, thank you for the picture. I talked to a gentleman named Ron. I Thought that it was going to be a walk. Then he explained what they were going to do. I have something going on in my nose throat  ears and head. Been going o n for about two   weeks now  I can feel real good, then out of nowhere it's back. I will make a copy and  put it in our album. I'll also send it to Cara to put on Facebook. Thank you Mary. 😋

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> On Oct 21, 2016, at 8:32 AM, Doreen Franklin via Nfbf-l <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> A pic of some of the members of the Fort Pierce Lions Club and the Treasure
> Coast Chapter of NFB. Were in front of Publix and many shoppers stopped and
> asked questions ... information was provided.
> 
>> On Oct 13, 2016 9:16 PM, "Sherri via Nfbf-l" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Oh that will be great! Good luck with the walk.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Doreen Franklin via Nfbf-l" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
>> To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: "Doreen Franklin" <doreenproverbs3 at bellsouth.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 8:26 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Article about White Cane Safety Day
>> 
>> 
>> I am going to print this article for the graduation candidates at
>> Acceleration Academy in St Lucie County. Several will be participating in
>> the White Cane Walk sponsored by the Ft Pierce Lions Club tomorrow. This is
>> a great opportunity for our young adults. Thanks for reposting this
>> Sherrie!
>> I will send pics ....
>> 
>> 
>> Doreen FranklinSpecial Education Consultant/Advocate772-284-4458
>> 
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>> -------- Original message --------From: peter cerullo via Nfbf-l
>> <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org> Date: 10/12/16  11:13 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: NFB of
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>> Internet Mailing List <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org> Cc: peter cerullo
>> <peter.cerullo at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Article about White Cane
>> Safety Day
>> Excellent Sherrie! You are a true Federation champion.
>> 
>> On Wednesday, October 12, 2016, Sherri via Nfbf-l <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I was doing some research for our MTBM activity tomorrow and found the
>>> following.
>>> 
>>> White Cane Safety Day: A Symbol of Independence
>>> 
>>> by Marc Maurer
>>> 
>>> In February of 1978 a young blind lady said, "I encounter people all of
>>> the
>>> time who bless me, extol my independence, call me brave and courageous,
>>> and
>>> thoroughly miss the boat as to what the real significance of the white
>>> cane
>>> is."
>>> 
>>> The National Federation of the Blind in convention assembled on the 6th
>>> day
>>> of July, 1963, called upon the governors of the fifty states to proclaim
>>> October
>>> 15 of each year as White Cane Safety Day in each of our fifty states. On
>>> October 6, 1964, a joint resolution of the Congress, HR 753, was signed
>>> into
>>> law
>>> authorizing the President of the United States to proclaim October 15 of
>>> each year as "White Cane Safety Day." This resolution said: "Resolved by
>>> the
>>> Senate
>>> and House of Representatives", that the President is hereby authorized to
>>> issue annually a proclamation designating October 15 as White Cane Safety
>>> Day
>>> and calling upon the people of the United States to observe such a day
>>> with
>>> appropriate ceremonies and activities.'
>>> 
>>> Within hours of the passage of the congressional joint resolution
>>> authorizing the President to proclaim October 15 as White Cane Safety
>> Day,
>>> then President
>>> Lyndon B. Johnson recognized the importance of the white cane as a staff
>>> of
>>> independence for blind people. In the first Presidential White Cane
>>> Proclamation
>>> President Johnson commended the blind for the growing spirit of
>>> independence
>>> and the increased determination to be self-reliant that the organized
>>> blind
>>> had shown. The Presidential proclamation said:
>>> 
>>> The white cane in our society has become one of the symbols of a blind
>>> person's ability to come and go on his own. Its use has promoted courtesy
>>> and special
>>> consideration to the blind on our streets and highways. To make our
>> people
>>> more fully aware of the meaning of the white cane and of the need for
>>> motorists
>>> to exercise special care for the blind persons who carry it Congress, by
>> a
>>> joint resolution approved as of October 6, 1964, has authorized the
>>> President
>>> to proclaim October 15 of each year as White Cane Safety Day.
>>> 
>>> Now, therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of
>>> America do hereby proclaim October 15, 1964 as White Cane Safety Day.
>>> 
>>> With those stirring words President Johnson issued the first White Cane
>>> Proclamation which was the culmination of a long and serious effort on
>> the
>>> part
>>> of the National Federation of the Blind to gain recognition for the
>>> growing
>>> independence and self-sufficiency of blind people in America, and also to
>>> gain
>>> recognition of the white cane as the symbol of that independence and that
>>> self-reliance.
>>> 
>>> The first of the state laws regarding the right of blind people to travel
>>> independently with the white cane was passed in 1930. In 1966, Dr.
>> Jacobus
>>> tenBroek,
>>> the founder of the National Federation of the Blind, drafted the model
>>> White
>>> Cane Law. This model act--which has become known as the Civil Rights Bill
>>> for the Blind, the Disabled, and the Otherwise Physically
>>> Handicapped-'contains a provision designating October 15 as White Cane
>>> Safety Day. Today there
>>> is a variant of the White Cane Law on the statute books of every state in
>>> the nation.
>>> 
>>> From 1963 (and even before) when the National Federation of the Blind
>>> sought
>>> to have White Cane Safety Day proclaimed as a recognition of the rights
>> of
>>> blind persons, to 1978 when a blind pedestrian met with misunderstanding
>>> regarding the true meaning of the white cane, is but a short time in the
>>> life
>>> of a movement. In 1963, a comparatively small number of blind people had
>>> achieved sufficient independence to travel alone on the busy highways of
>>> our
>>> nation.
>>> In 1978 that number has not simply increased but multiplied a
>> hundredfold.
>>> The process began in the beginning of the organized blind movement and
>>> continues
>>> today. There was a time when it was unusual to see a blind person on the
>>> street, to find a blind person working in an office, or to see a blind
>>> person
>>> operating machinery in a factory. This is still all too uncommon. But it
>>> happens more often and the symbol of this independence is the white cane.
>>> The
>>> blind are able to go, to move, to be, and to compete with all others in
>>> society. The means by which this is done is that simple tool, the white
>>> cane. With
>>> the growing use of the white cane is an added element'-the wish and the
>>> will
>>> to be free'-the unquenchable spirit and the inextinguishable
>> determination
>>> to be independent. With these our lives are changed, and the prospects
>> for
>>> blind people become bright. That is what White Cane Safety Day is all
>>> about.
>>> That is what we do in the National Federation of the Blind
>>> 
>>> Model White Cane Law
>>> 
>>> Sample White Cane Safety Day Proclamation
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the
>>> characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
>>> expectations
>>> of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind
>>> people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not
>>> what
>>> holds you back.
>>> 
>>> Sherri Brun
>>> flmom2006 at gmail.com <javascript:;>
>>> President NFB of Central Florida
>>> NFBF Newsline Marketer
>>> Phone: 877-334-2069
>>> 
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