LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) – The Kentucky School for the Blind (KSB) will be celebrating 184 years of serving visually impaired students, during an event scheduled to take place at the school Thursday.
This year’s KSB Founders Day Program will celebrate the history of the KSB Segregated Department (1884-1957), highlighting past administrators, educators and alumni of the school. The school educated African American students that were blind and visually impaired in a three-story structure on the northeast side of the KSB campus for more than 70 years, until the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954 that mandated the desegregation of public schools. KSB was one of the first schools in the state to comply with this decision.
The Founders Day celebration will conclude with the presentation of the Paul J. Langan Distinguished Service Award, which is given annually to a Kentuckian who displays qualities that have had a strong, positive influence on the lives of individuals who are blind or visually impaired and KSB. The recipient of the 2026 Paul J. Langan Distinguished Service Award is Dr. John E. Musick…