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Description
Notes his own background and blindness; social prejudice problems; voluntary agencies and services; government agencies and personnel; employment agencies for the blind; schools, housing and miscellaneous problems. Copies of correspondence and documents added. Additional Descriptive Notes: Tape 1: 1. Intro -- description of Jenkins 2. Social prejudice major problem 3. Example of working blind people 4. Agencies keep blind dependent 5. Agencies more toward indep. How, personnel 6. Blind workers better than sighted in agency work 7. Amer. Foundation for Blind 8. Nursery schools for blind babies 9. Most charities don't get at problem Tape 2: 10. Passage of Aid to Needy Blind, Aid to Partially Self-supporting Blind 11. Budge of $90, philosophy of asking for public assistance 12. Jenkins' definition of blindness as social 13. Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation 14. Purposes of Orientation Center 15. Field workers, need for early case finding.
Type
sound
Format
Original Sound full track 1/4 inch audio tape
Form/Genre
Oral histories
Extent
2 Tapes of 2
Identifier
Phonotape 260 B cabeuroh_00008_t1; cabeuroh_00008_t2
Language
English
Subject
Blind--California Jenkins, Allen, 1922- California Council of the Blind Oakland Orientation Center for the Blind National Federation of the Blind
Provenance
Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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