
The Disability Social History Project (DSHP), managed by Patricia Chadwick, is a community history project and we welcome your participation. Please contact us about anything that you would like to see become part of DSHP, including your disabled heroes, important events in disability history, and resources.
Disability History and Culture Collective
The Disability History and Culture Collective is a new and still forming intersectional alliance of disability historians and advocates working to establish an accessible public network and database of existing and new disability history resources, to find and preserve collections, to promote research, and to ultimately establish a central bricks and mortar museum with local affiliates as part of the Smithsonian. You can join the collective’s Google group list and subscribe to the monthly Disability History & Culture Collective e-newsletter (see past issues of the newsletter).
Recent Highlights:

How Fannie Lou Hamer’s disability informed her fight for voting rights
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LaTonya Reeves, Advocate for Community-Based Services
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Hale Zukas – Disabled Advocate & Leader
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Signing Black in America
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Lois Curtis, Disability Rights Activist Who Won a Landmark Civil Rights Case (1967 – 2022)
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Disabled American Veterans Start Spy Ring in the 1930s to Thwart Nazi Groups in US
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Roberta Griffith…Empowered, not Impaired
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Join Us in a Dream: A National Museum of Disability History and Culture
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Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
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(Banner image from left: Front page of the May 7, 1977 edition of The Black Panther; a postage stamp titled “For Crippled Children”; a Goodwill postcard “Good Willy”; a Nazi poster about the “burden” of disabled people; disabled women at the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women; Black Disabled Ancestors by Leroy Moore; art by disabled artist Wolfie; a photo from the 504 protest; Fading Scars: my queer disability history by Corbett O’Toole.)