Jacobus tenBroek founded the National Federation of the Blind in 1940 and was also a constitutional law scholar, a civil rights activist, a leader in the reform of social welfare, and a distinguished national and international humanitarian.
Edward Norton Barnhart (1909-1988) was Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric, University of California Berkeley.
Floyd W. Matson served as a primary leader of the National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii. In 2005 the National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii honored Dr. Matson as a "treasure of Hawaii" for all of his outstanding efforts to support the blind in that state and throughout the nation.