Accession Number: 2009.21.26
Summary/Description: Blue clothbound boards with dust jacket. On jacket: "1938-1998, The Javits-Wagner-O'Day Program [JWOD]." Features the stories of sixty blind and/or severely disabled people who obtained jobs through the JWOD Program. Each story also includes a photograph of the featured individual. Book and photographs by Linda Sullivan Schulte.
Author: Schulte, Linda Sullivan
Collection: Hall of Fame Collection
History/Provenance: Don Wedewer's role in the field of rehabilitation includes serving as a Private Citizen on the Committee for Purchase From People Who are Blind or Severely Disabled, representing nonprofit agency employees who are blind. The Presidentially-appointed Committee, along with NISH and the National Industries for the Blind "provide assistance and direction" to the JWOD Program.
Credit Line: Hall of Fame Collection, 2009.21
Publisher: NISH
Publisher Place: Vienna, VA
Publish Date: 1998
Subjects: Blind persons People with disabilities Employment -- United States Rehabilitation -- United States
Physical Description: 123 p. : ill. ; 9.5. x 10.25 in.
