Kenneth Jernigan

Kenneth Jernigan was born blind in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up on a farm in Tennessee.

During this time, he joined the National Federation of the Blind of Tennessee, eventually serving as its vice-president in 1950 and President one year later.

[2] After Jernigan had been in Iowa for only two weeks, he wrote a detailed letter to Governor Herschel Loveless outlining the deplorable conditions he had found in the agency upon his arrival.

"[1] Also in 1968, Jernigan became President of the National Federation of the Blind upon the death of founder Jacobus tenBroek.

"[citation needed] THE BLINDNESS REVOLUTION: Jernigan in His Own Words, James H. Omvig, Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2005.