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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, ©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
  • 1613761902
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: What we have done.DDC classification:
  • 346.7301/3 23
LOC classification:
  • KF480 .P45 2012
NLM classification:
  • 2017 A-574
  • KF 480
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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 bibliographical references 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.

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Draws on first-person accounts of activists, beginning with those who grew up with disabilities in the 1940s and 50s.

English.

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