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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 622 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781613761908
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • KF480 .W438 2012
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Subject: Draws on first-person accounts of activists, beginning with those who grew up with disabilities in the 1940s and 50s.
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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.

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