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One of the first three blind people to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro (along with John Opio and Lawrence Sserwambala). First African competitor at the Winter Paralympic Games. [12] [13] Takeichi Nishi – Colonel in the Imperial Japanese Army During World War II. Commander of the 26th Tank Regiment in the Battle of Iwo Jima. He was ...
In 2018 Smiley received the Patriot of Hope Award in Beverly Hills, California and in that same year he and his family appeared on Dr. Phil to exhibit a special device that helps blind people read. Also in 2018, Smiley and his wife Tiffany met President Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. [ 14 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ]
She taught music to blind students and gave recitals in New York, [6] and was active on stage as an actress with the Lighthouse Players. [7] [8] [9] She moved to California in the 1930s, after visiting San Francisco to compete in a national piano competition. [10] She played piano in clubs and on radio during and after World War II.
[1] [2] His remaining eyesight deteriorated, and he was completely blind by age 14. [2] His mother decided to move the family to California so tenBroek could attend a state school for the blind. [2] [1] In 1934, tenBroek graduated from the University of California with a degree in history. He graduated with the highest honors. [1]
Hohri became a civil rights and anti-war activist after World War II. In the late 1970s he became the chair of the National Coalition for Japanese American Redress (NCJAR), which brought a class action lawsuit against the US Government on March 16, 1983, asserting that it had unjustly incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II. [ 8 ]
As Eline Øidvin approached the top of Mt. Langley, a 14,000-foot colossus in California's Eastern Sierra Nevada, she could feel the soft, sandy gravel beneath her feet.She could hear the ...
Image credits: The Musick Group #4 Oscar Zeta Acosta. The Mexican-American attorney made a name for himself by being an activist in the Chicano Movement, as well as for his novels: 1972’s ...
Albert Andrew Schmid (20 October 1920 – 1 December 1982) was a United States Marine awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism at the Battle of the Tenaru (Ilu River) during the Guadalcanal campaign in World War II. Credited with killing over 200 Japanese attackers during a night-long assault, he was blinded in action by a grenade blast and ...