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National Museum of the Blind People’s Movement Act
To designate the Museum of the Blind People's Movement in Baltimore, Maryland, as the ``National Museum of the Blind People's Movement''.
Summary
This bill designates the Museum of the Blind People's Movement in Baltimore, Maryland, as the National Museum of the Blind People's Movement. The museum, located at 200 East Wells Street, is operated by the National Federation of the Blind and houses artifacts, documents, and literature related to the history and contributions of blind people in the United States. According to the bill's findings, this will be the first museum owned and operated by blind people in America. The museum serves to document the struggles and successes of blind individuals and the blind rights movement.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Mfume, Kweisi [D-MD-7] (D-MD)
13 cosponsors
- Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC)
- Rep. Bishop, Sanford D. [D-GA-2] (D-GA)
- Rep. Carson, André [D-IN-7] (D-IN)
- Rep. Elfreth, Sarah [D-MD-3] (D-MD)
- Rep. Goodlander, Maggie [D-NH-2] (D-NH)
- Rep. Hoyer, Steny H. [D-MD-5] (D-MD)
- Rep. Ivey, Glenn [D-MD-4] (D-MD)
- Rep. McClain Delaney, April [D-MD-6] (D-MD)
- Rep. Olszewski, Johnny [D-MD-2] (D-MD)
- Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8] (D-MD)
- Rep. Rutherford, John H. [R-FL-5] (R-FL)
- Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-17] (R-TX)
- Rep. Simon, Lateefah [D-CA-12] (D-CA)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Kweisi Mfume’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- CAREER COMMUNICATIONS GROUP $8,300
- THE RLJ COMPANIES $6,600
- Y COMBINATOR $5,300
- CURIO WELLNESS $5,300
- KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE $4,500
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Kweisi Mfume → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Dec 4, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. · house
- Dec 4, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 4, 2025
Mr. Mfume (for himself, Ms. Simon, Ms. Elfreth, and Ms. Norton) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
A BILL
To designate the Museum of the Blind People’s Movement in Baltimore, Maryland, as the “National Museum of the Blind People’s Movement”.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “National Museum of the Blind People’s Movement Act”.
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE BLIND PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT.
(a) Findings.—Congress finds the following:
(1) Equal treatment under the law and equal access to all the rights, privileges, and protections of the Constitution are core tenets of the philosophy of the United States of America.
(2) Those noble and lofty ideals have not always been met throughout the course of this country’s shared national history and its movement toward a more perfect Union.
(3) People with disabilities have faced unique challenges pertaining to accessibility and civil rights.
(4) Blind individuals have experienced systemic discrimination and low expectations but, despite these barriers, have historically made significant contributions to society which have often gone underrecognized.
(5) Blind people self-organized on a national basis in 1940 to establish the National Federation of the Blind which has served as a vehicle for collective action by the blind themselves to raise expectations in society.
(6) The National Federation of the Blind has served as the model and inspiration for the development of blind-led organizations the world over and sparked the creation of the International Federation of the Blind which later became part of the World Blind Union.
(7) Throughout the course of its eight-decade crusade to ensure the full integration of the blind into society on the basis of equality, the National Federation of the Blind has acquired innumerable artifacts, documents, and literature detailing the individual and collective accomplishments and struggles of blind people and how those individuals have contributed to the broader American society.
(8) The United States has no cultural institution that centers the experience of blind people and elevates the understanding of how those individuals have worked together to improve society and to change the negative misconceptions about the blind in the Nation and around the world.
(9) The National Federation of the Blind has chosen to commit to the collection, preservation, and curation of this history through the Museum of the Blind People’s Movement located inside the National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
(10) This will be the first museum owned and operated by the blind of America.
(11) The museum, as well as the existing archive which is currently available to researchers, will serve as a national platform to explore the struggles and successes of the blind as individuals, as collectives, and as a movement, and to encourage understanding of the past, and facilitate awareness and evoke dialogue in the present, while inspiring respect, determination, and action for an equitable future.
(b) Designation.—The museum known as the Museum of the Blind People’s Movement, located at 200 East Wells Street in Baltimore, Maryland, is designated as the “National Museum of the Blind People’s Movement”. <all>
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