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What national resource for blind readers did Samuel Gridley Howe urge Congress to fund?

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Samuel Gridley Howe, a prominent American educator and the director of the Perkins School for the Blind, urged the U.S. Congress to appropriate funds for a national library for the blind. Although he advocated for this resource during the 1830s and 1840s, his aspiration was never realized during his lifetime.1