National White Cane Safety Day

About National White Cane Safety Day

National White Cane Safety Day is a national holiday established by the President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, to celebrate the achievements of people who are blind or visually impaired and the important symbol of blindness and tool of independence, the white cane.

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