T he Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation is the first comprehensive history of the disabled community`s ongoing struggle for civil rights. Co-authors Doris Zames Fleischer, a ...
Harvard researcher Ari Ne'eman says the policy shifts underway under the Trump administration pose a unique threat to people with disabilities,... When Ari Ne'eman heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. call ...
As America approaches its 250th anniversary, reflecting on advances in civil rights highlights the importance of healthcare equity for all Americans. One of the most transformative laws in American ...
Disability rights history unveiled inside Denver mini-museum The Disability and Culture Mini-Museum in Denver preserves the history of the disability rights movement sparked by the 1978 protest for ...
A 1978 protest by wheelchair users won a right many now take for granted: boarding a city bus. NPR's Joe Shapiro and Colorado Public Radio's Stephanie Wolf explain.
This virutal exhibition is the same as the kiosk exhibition at the National Museum of American history. The online exhibition has links to the movement, dissent, technology, mobility, self definition, ...
Every July, Disability Pride Month recognizes the history and achievements of people with disabilities. The celebration ...
On the day after the Fourth of July in 1978, a group of young disabled people blocked two city buses at one of the busiest intersections in downtown Denver – to declare their right to live ...
The disabilities affect everyday living and most often continue throughout life because they impair the physical body, learning, language and/or one’s behavior ...
Shameka Andrews is known around the Capital Region for her disability rights work. She was born with spina bifida and uses a wheelchair to get around, it's something some might view as a hinderance, ...
When Ari Ne’eman heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. call autism an “epidemic” that “destroys families,” Ne’eman felt like he had stepped into a time machine — heading in the wrong direction. It was during an ...