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Day 44 - Samuel Gridley Howe


Today, November 22nd, is the 220th birthday of Samuel Gridley Howe. Howe played a role in the first efforts to educate children with disabilities in the United States. His accomplishments include the foundation of the The Massachusetts school for Idiotic and Feeble Minded Youth and his role as the first director of the Perkins School for the Blind.


References:

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. S.G. Howe. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-f862-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99


Trent, J. W. (n.d.). Samuel Gridley Howe, romantic reformer. Social Welfare History Project. Retrieved [date accessed] from http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/howe-samuel-gridley/



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