Blind History Lady

Three inspiring stories highlight how blind individuals helped shape history through innovation, determination, and perseverance. One explores the surprising connection between blindness and the development of the typewriter, another follows Zorah Tinsley, a blind entrepreneur who built a successful rural telephone network in Oklahoma, and the third tells the story of Emma Mast, a blind woman who...

Three remarkable individuals proved that blindness does not define a person's potential. Dr. Arthur Dye became the first blind Life Master bridge player in the United States while building a successful medical career, Joseph Baker transformed public education in Tennessee after losing his sight as a teenager, and Civil War veteran William Sallada overcame a devastating war injury to become an inve...

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com

archived stories in the collections of our blind ancestors in America researched and told by the Blind History Lady through monthly emails, and now in audio format. To subscribe to The Blind History Lady’s email list, send a note to theblindhistorylady@gmail.com