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What we have done : an oral history of the disability rights movement
- Title
- What we have done : an oral history of the disability rights movement / Fred Pelka.
- Author
- Pelka, Fred, 1954-
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2012.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 12-3995 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 622 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Childhood -- Institutions -- Discrimination -- Institutions -- The University of Illinois -- Discrimination, and early advocacy -- The parents' movement -- Activists and organizers -- Institutions -- Activists and organizers -- Independent living -- The disability press -- The American coalition of citizens with disabilities -- The HEW demonstrations -- Psychiatric survivors -- Working the system -- Institutions -- Self-advocates -- DREDF and the 504 trainings -- Activists and organizers -- Adapt -- Deaf president now! -- The Americans with disabilities act; "the machinery of change" -- Drafting the bill -- Insiders -- Drafting the bill -- Lobbying and gathering support -- Mobilizing the community -- Experts -- Insiders -- Wheels of justice and the Chapman Amendment -- Lobbyists -- Senators -- Victory -- Aftermath.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-3995
- ISBN
- 9781558499195 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1558499199 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781558499188 (library cloth : alk. paper)
- 1558499180 (library cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011050377
- OCLC
- YBP 2011050377
- Author
- Pelka, Fred, 1954-
- Title
- What we have done : an oral history of the disability rights movement / Fred Pelka.
- Imprint
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-3995