What we have done : an oral history of the disability rights movement /
Pelka, Fred, 1954-
What we have done : an oral history of the disability rights movement / Fred Pelka. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xvi, 622 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
Draws on first-person accounts of activists, beginning with those who grew up with disabilities in the 1940s and 50s.
9781613761908
JSTOR
United States -- Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
People with disabilities--Civil rights--History.--United States
People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.--United States
Social control.
Electronic Books.
KF480 / .W438 2012
What we have done : an oral history of the disability rights movement / Fred Pelka. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xvi, 622 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
Draws on first-person accounts of activists, beginning with those who grew up with disabilities in the 1940s and 50s.
9781613761908
JSTOR
United States -- Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
People with disabilities--Civil rights--History.--United States
People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.--United States
Social control.
Electronic Books.
KF480 / .W438 2012