- Pioneers in the fight for disability rights🔍
- Pioneers of Disability Rights🔍
- Disability History🔍
- A Brief History of Disability Rights in the United States🔍
- Disability Rights Timeline🔍
- Justice Department Remembers Judy Heumann🔍
- A Brief History of the Disability Rights Movement🔍
- Pioneers Who Shaped the Americans with Disabilities Act🔍
Pioneers in the fight for disability rights
Pioneers in the fight for disability rights | International Socialist Review
The first is the rise of the Independent Living Movement in Berkeley, California. This movement was born of the efforts of a group of disabled University of ...
Pioneers of Disability Rights | Independent Living, Inc.
These are the pioneers of disability rights, including Lois Curtis, Judy Heumann, Alice Wong, and Ed Roberts.
Disability History: The Disability Rights Movement
To date, the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the subsequent ADA Amendments Act (2008) are the movement's greatest legal ...
A Brief History of Disability Rights in the United States
Go on a journey with disability rights activist Lawrence Carter-Long as your guide in this video overview of the rich history and culture of the disability ...
Disability Rights Timeline - Temple University Institute on Disabilities
Ed Roberts, a young man with polio, enrolls at the University of California, Berkeley. After his admission is rejected, he fights to get the decision overturned ...
Ask Kathy: 5 People Extremely Important to the Disability Rights ...
Judy Heumann will forever be remembered as the “Mother of the disability rights movement.” She is most famous for the historic 1977 Section 504 ...
Disability History - Independence Now
Ed Roberts, Disability Rights Pioneer and the Father of the Independent Living Movement, is born. In 1962, he becomes the first severely ...
Justice Department Remembers Judy Heumann
The Justice Department remembers Judy Heumann, one of the pioneers of the disability rights movement. Ms. Heumann, who used a wheelchair ...
A Brief History of the Disability Rights Movement - ADL
People with disabilities have had to battle against centuries of biased assumptions, harmful stereotypes and irrational fears.
Pioneers Who Shaped the Americans with Disabilities Act
Often hailed as the “Godfather of the ADA,” Justin Dart Jr.'s leadership was pivotal in the fight for disability rights. A survivor of polio ...
Pioneer of the Disability Rights Movement Speaks at Fordham
Judith “Judy” Heumann, a 72-year-old pioneer of the disability rights movement recently featured in TIME's list of the most influential women of the past ...
A Shared Struggle for Equality: Disability Rights and Racial Justice
Through their activism, leadership, and innovative contributions, Black disabled leaders like Lacy, Lomax, and Jackson, among many others, made ...
Two Pioneers In Disability Rights And Aging In American Pass Away
We note the passing of two significant figures in the fields of disability rights and elder care: Lois Curtis and Jane Gross.
History of Disability Rights Milestones and Laws
Disability rights activists, including Judy Heumann, Kitty Cone, Brad Lomax, Mary Jane Owen, Corbett O'Toole, and Hale Zukas, stage a sit-in protest in San ...
7 Women Who Shaped the Disability Rights Movement - SETWorks
7 Women Who Shaped the Disability Rights Movement · 1. Alice Wong · 2. Barbara Jordan · 3. Jazzie Collins · 4. Johnnie Lacy · 5. Judy Heumann · 6.
A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States - HUSL Library at ...
The fight for rights for disabled people slowly took shape in the United States, beginning in the early 1800s.
Where We Came From - Disability Rights Center of Kansas
1938 - The American Federation of the Physically Handicapped is founded by Paul Strachan as the nation's first cross-disability, national political organization ...
Women's History Month: Celebrating Disability Rights Pioneers
Many of us are familiar with Helen KellerOpens in a new window and her impact on beliefs about disabled persons and disability rights in the ...
The Disability Rights Movement | 150 Years of Women at Berkeley
The Disability Rights Movement · Susan O'Hara (1938-2018) · Cathrine Caulfield · Zona Roberts · Professor Karen Nakamura · Judith Heumann, MPH '75 · Linda Perotti.
Disability History: The 1977 504 Sit-In
The 504 Sit-in was organized by a group of disability rights activists, with most of them being young and from a wide variety of marginalized identities. Key ...