What we have done : an oral history of the disability rights movement

What we have done : an oral history of the disability rights movement /

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Draws on first-person accounts of activists, beginning with those who grew up with disabilities in the 1940s and 50s.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pelka, Fred, 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
United States. > Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (United States)
People with disabilities > Civil rights > United States > History.
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History.
Social control.
Civil Rights > history
Disabled Persons > history
Institutionalization > history
Social Control, Formal
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
Social control
People with disabilities > Civil rights
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Childhood
  • Institutions, part 1
  • Discrimination, part 1
  • Institutions, part 2
  • The University of Illinois
  • Discrimination, part 2, and early advocacy
  • The parents' movement
  • Activists and organizers, part 1
  • Institutions, part 3
  • Activists and organizers, part 2
  • Independent living
  • The disability press
  • The American coalition of citizens with disabilities
  • The HEW demonstrations
  • Psychiatric survivors
  • Working the system
  • Institutions, part 4
  • Self-advocates
  • DREDF and the 504 trainings
  • Activists and organizers, part 3
  • ADAPT
  • Deaf president now!
  • The Americans with Disabilities Act: "the machinery of change"
  • Drafting the bill, part 1
  • Insiders, part 1
  • Drafting the bill, part 2
  • Lobbying and gathering support
  • Mobilizing the community
  • Experts
  • Insiders, part 2
  • Wheels of justice and the Chapman Amendment
  • Lobbyists
  • Senators
  • Victory
  • Aftermath.

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