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of forced disability retirement. They retained her, and she ended up working for thirteen years as a teacher for blind students. In
February 1949, Grant was removed from her teaching position at Belvedere and placed at Polytechnic High School. Due to misconceptions of blindness, Grant was moved forced from school to school. She was required to have a sighted adult in the classroom at all times as a safety precaution.
208:. The aim of her trip was to learn as much as she could about education in the countries she visited. Her particular interest was in the education of children who are blind. At the time of her trip, she had been completely blind for twelve years, and society considered women and people who were blind too helpless to travel alone. During one of her yearlong trips, she visited twenty-three countries, including
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Due to her vision loss in the 1940s, she was forced from her position as Vice
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Grant wrote a book about her world travel with only her white cane accompanying her. There were challenges to writing her book, from
Braille notes being flattened from the humidity in the tropical climate where she traveled to difficulty finding a publisher. Her book was not published until 2016,
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She was a skilled teacher. Once students showed improvement, they were removed from her classroom. She retired from teaching in June 1962. Her teaching career spanned thirty-two years. During her retirement celebration, her colleagues gave her a book filled with letters of appreciation. In August
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Grant felt blind students should be educated alongside their sighted peers. She believed this helps to prepare the children who are blind to live in a sighted world. This was most positively received in developing countries where they lacked funding to build separate schools for blind students.
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Grant was the first blind person to teach in the
California Public School system. She began as a teacher in the Los Angeles, California public school system in 1927. She was an advocate for Mexican American students and often went with them to court if they got into trouble.
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books, typewriters, music, paper, watches, and folding canes. Some of these items she would send to people who needed them in the United States. Other items she sent to other countries. Due to these efforts, Grant helped to establish
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Due to her experiences as a teacher who was blind, Grant worked on legislative and organizational efforts so that blind teachers would not have to experience such discrimination in the workplace. In conjunction with the
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Grant was married to a physician, Alexander Grant. Together they had one daughter, Jane
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