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What we have done : an oral history of the disability rights movement / Fred Pelka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pelka, Fred, 1954- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--Civil rights--United States--History.
- People with disabilities.
- People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (658 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Draws on first-person accounts of activists, beginning with those who grew up with disabilities in the 1940's and 50's.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of Acronyms
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Childhood
- Chapter 2. Institutions, Part1
- Chapter 3. Discrimination, Part 1
- Chapter 4. Institutions, Part 2
- Chapter 5. The University of Illinois
- Chapter 6. Discrimination, Part 2, and Early Advocacy
- Chapter 7. The Parents' Movement
- Chapter 8. Activists and Organizers, Part 1
- Chapter 9. Institutions, Part 3
- Chapter 10. Activists and Organizers, Part 2
- Chapter 11. Independent Living
- Chapter 12. The Disability Press
- Chapter 13. The American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities
- Chapter 14. The Hew Demonstrations
- Chapter 15. Psychiatric Survivors
- Chapter 16. Working the System
- Chapter 17. Institutions, Part 4
- Chapter 18. Self-Advocates
- Chapter 19. Dredf and the 504 Trainings
- Chapter 20. Activists and Organizers, Part 3
- Chapter 21. Adapt
- Chapter 22. Deaf President Now!
- Chapter 23. The Americans with Disabilities Act-"the Machinery of Change"
- Chapter 24. Drafting the Bill, Part 1
- Chapter 25. Insiders, Part 1
- Chapter 26. Drafting the Bill, Part 2
- Chapter 27. Lobbying and Gathering Support
- Chapter 28. Mobilizing the Community
- Chapter 29. Experts
- Chapter 30. Insiders, Part 2
- Chapter 31. Wheels of Justice and the Chapman Amendment
- Chapter 32. Lobbyists
- Chapter 33. Senators
- Chapter 34. Victory
- Chapter 35. Aftermath
- Notes
- Interview Sources
- Index
- Illustrations
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-190-2
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