| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 622 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
United States. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
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| SUBJECT |
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (United States) fast |
| Subject |
People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- United States -- History
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People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History
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Social control.
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Civil Rights -- history
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Disabled Persons -- history
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Institutionalization -- history
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Social Control, Formal
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities.
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Social control
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People with disabilities -- Civil rights
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People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781613761908 |
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1613761902 |
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