246:. Research specialist at the Jacobus tenBroek Library, Lou Ann Blake, catalogued the collection. Printed, the collection took up thirty-five four-drawer file cabinets and four two-drawer file cabinets. Some of the more important documents are now archived in a temperature- and humidity-controlled room within the Jernigan Institute. Scholars have visited the collection to research activists in the blind civil rights movement, including
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TenBroek was born in
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asserting the right of students to promote political causes in Sproul Plaza on the
University of California Berkeley campus, Dr. tenBroek was not among the faculty members who cancelled classes in support of the strikers. He explained in class when asked by a student why he was holding class that
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Throughout his life, tenBroek collected documentation about the early history of the
National Federation of the Blind and the blind civil rights movement. After his death, his wife continued collecting papers for the collection, which is now housed at the Jacobus tenBroek Library within the
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TenBroek wrote in his 1966 article "The Right to Live in the World: The
Disabled in the Law of Torts", that the doctrines in the law of torts ought to be reviewed and revised to address the modern societal integration of disabled people into society.
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During his career, he focused on subjects that were not yet being written about by scholars. He brought attention to the field of welfare and raised awareness to the deprived citizens in society. He wrote scholarly material about the origins of the
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tenBroek, J., Barnhart, E.N., & Matson, F.W. (1970). Prejudice, War and the
Constitution: Causes and Consequences of the Evacuation of the Japanese Americans in World War II. University of California
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with a degree in history. He graduated with the highest honors. He went on to earn a master's degree in political science and a
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tenBroek, J. (1966). The Right to Live in the World: The
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tenBroek, J. (1951). The
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tenBroek, J. (1964). California's Dual System of Family Law.
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