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Where do you see overlaps between the Disability Movement and other Civil Rights movements we have talked about so far? Highlight your evidence above.
Transcribed Image Text:Important Moments in the Fight for Disability Rights
1940-1980 - A Growing Spirit of Independence and Rise of Representation
Summer camps and rehabilitation centers were established to provide nurturing environments for activists. Ed Roberts was among those
top activists, and was the first student who used a wheelchair to attend the University of California, Berkeley because there were no
accessible dormitories. He inspired the blueprint for the first Center for Independent Living.
Portrayals of disabilities in the mainstream media have often been negative. But there was also Ray Charles, an extremely talented blind,
black singer/songwriter amongst a lot of Black disabled musicians - Stevie Wonder, B.B. King, Robert Winters and many more.
1972 - Institutionalization and Mistreatment
In 1972, the conditions at the Willowbrook State School, an institution on Staten Island in New York City, set off national outrage when
it was exposed for its horrific conditions. Institutionalization and false treatments had been in practice for decades. Even in 2012, a
video surfaced showing the staff of the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Massachusetts using electric shock on Andre McCollins,
an autistic resident, 31 times over seven hours because he wouldn't remove his jacket.
1975 - Education Rights and Parent Advocacy
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (now the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act), enacted in 1975, required
federally funded public schools to provide equal access to education and one free meal a day to children with disabilities. Parents of
children with disabilities fought back and argued that integration meant equal access to education for ALL (including those with
disabilities).
1978- The Gang of 19 and ADAPT
On July 5, 1978, a group of 19 people gathered at one of the busiest intersections in Denver, at Colfax Avenue and Broadway, got out of
their wheelchairs and lay down to stop traffic. Their goal was to protest the inaccessibility of the city's public transit system. The group
had been pushing the city to install wheelchair lifts, and when a new fleet of buses was released without them, they were angry.
1988 'Deaf President Now'
On March 6, 1988, Gallaudet University in Washington, a liberal arts college for Deaf people, appointed a president who was not Deaf.
The university had, in fact, never had a Deaf president. This set off a student protest that came to be known as Deaf President Now.
After several days, the university named I. King Jordan its first Deaf president.
1990 - Americans with Disability Act (A.D.A.) is ratified and made into a law.
This act prohibits employers from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities. An individual with a disability is
someone who
Has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities
Or has a record of such impairment,
Or is regarded to have such an impairment.
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2014 - Race, Disability and Police Brutality
About 30 to 50 percent of all people killed by law enforcement officers are disabled, according to a study by the Ruderman Family
Foundation. As tensions heightened in 2014 alongside the rise of Black Lives Matter, this statistic became especially apparent.
Disability was overlooked in news reports of the deaths of Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray and many others, said Cyrée Jarelle
Johnson, a Black disabled poet and librarian.
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