Pelka, Fred,  1954- <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Draws on first-person accounts of activists, beginning with those who grew up with disabilities in the 1940s and 50s. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781613761908 
<br/><br/><label>Standard Tech. Report. No.: </label>JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States -- Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>People with disabilities--Civil rights--History.--United States<br/>People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.--United States<br/>Social control.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF480  / .W438 2012