According to Frances Koestler, author of The Unseen Minority, more than 150 leaders involved in services to promote the education and rehabilitation of people with visual impairments assembled at the Iowa College for the Blind in June 1921. Brought to Vinton, IA, for the ninth biennial meeting of the American Association of Workers for the Blind (AAWB), their agenda focused on an idea that had been discussed the previous year, by members of the American Association of Instructors of the Blind—the need to establish a strong national organization that concentrated its efforts on improving the circumstances of people who were blind or have low vision in North America.

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随着美国盲人基金会庆祝其成立一百周年，《视觉障碍与失明杂志》开始了连续第115年的出版，这要归功于那些使之成为可能的人

根据《看不见的少数民族》一书的弗朗西斯·科斯特勒（Frances Koestler）的说法，超过150位领导人参与了旨在促进视力障碍者的教育和康复的服务，于1921年6月在爱荷华州盲人学院聚集。美国盲人工作者协会（AAWB）两年一次的会议，其议程重点是去年美国盲人辅导员协会成员讨论过的想法，即建立一个强大的国家组织以致力于改善北美盲人或视力低下者的生活状况。