| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 622 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
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Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (United States) |
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People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- United States -- History.
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People with disabilities -- Civil rights. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History.
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People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Disabled Persons -- history. |
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Institutionalization -- history. |
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Civil Rights -- history. |
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Social Control, Formal. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pelka, Fred, 1954- What we have done. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2012 9781558499188 (DLC) 2011050377 (OCoLC)733731414 |
| ISBN |
9781613761908 (electronic book) |
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1613761902 (electronic book) |
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9781558499188 (library cloth) |
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1558499180 (library cloth) |
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9781558499195 (paperback) |
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1558499199 (paperback) |
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