What we have done : an oral history of the disability rights movement

Pelka, Fred, 1954-

2012, Book , xvi, 622 pages, [16] pages of plates :

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Publication information:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2012.
ISBN:	1558499180 (library cloth)
ISBN:	1558499199 (pbk.)
ISBN:	9781558499188 (library cloth)
ISBN:	9781558499195 (pbk.)
Language:	English
Record ID:	2911332
Format:	Regular Print Book
Physical description:	xvi, 622 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Date acquired:	November 14, 2012
More creator details:	Fred Pelka.
Contents note:	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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