This is a sampling of disability rights events and people who were significant in the history of Washington, DC
- National Park Service: Disability History: The Disability Rights Movement
- Judy Heumann – “Mother of Disability Rights” who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations
- Tributes
- Judy’s obituary on the BBC
- Tributes
- Lois Curtis
- Lois Curtis, Whose Lawsuit Secured Disability Rights, Dies at 55, The New York Times
- Native Americans
- “Everything in Nature Goes in Curves and Circles”: Native American Concepts of Disability, Grinnell College
- Hidden History of “Hand Talk” (video)
- Susan Burch, Committed – book about Native American institutions
- Hiawatha Insane Asylum, Canton, South Dakota
- Grant Them Rest: The Canton Asylum
- St Elizabeths Mental Hospital
- St Elizabeths: Martin Summers, Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019)
- The Invalid Corps
- The Invalid Corps, Civil War Research
- Gallaudet University
- The First 100 Years, Gallaudet University
- How “Deaf President Now” Changed America, Pacific Standard Magazine
- Enslaved Persons
- The Continuation of Slavery: The Experience of Disabled Slaves during Emancipation, Disability Studies Quarterly
- Disability and Enslavement, Wikipedia
- Book explores the intersection of slavery and disability in the US, University of Buffalo
- League of Physically Handicapped: Pioneers in the fight for disability rights, International Socialist Review
- Fight for Education in DC
- Mills v. Board of Education of District of Columbia (1972)
- Forest Haven, institution for DC people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
- Oral Histories from Forest Haven:
- Bob Williams – Director of the US Independent Living Administration at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), worked on the Forest Haven case
- Washington Post reporting from Katherine Boo
- Rehabilitation Act of 1973 & 504
- Transcript of a Black Panther newspaper article about the protests
- 2017: ADAPT protests re. healthcare
- Disability advocates arrested during health care protest at McConnell’s office, the Washington Post
- “No cuts to Medicaid!”: protesters in wheelchairs arrested after release of health care bill, Vox
- Disability Justice Movement
- What is Disability Justice? – Sins Invalid
- A Black disabled teen went unheard in prison. People are now listening., The Washington Post
- Some of the Significant People in DC Disability Rights
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US President – Disability and Deception, University of Arizona
- Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist
- Justin and Yoshiko Dart, disability activists
- 14 Black Disabled Women Who Made a Powerful Impact
- People in government who were disability activists
- Kathy Martinez, a blind, Latinx LGBTQI, was Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy for the Obama administration
- Michael Winter – transportation Department – starting in 1994 (Clinton administration).
- Helen Keller
- Helen Keller’s Forgotten Radicalism, Time Magazine
- Claudia Gordon – Black Deaf Lawyer attended Howard U, advisor to Obama
- John Kennedy and Eunice Shriver – worked to advance research and treatment of people with developmental disabilities
- Brad Lomax, Black Panther Party member and part of the 504 delegation that went to DC
- Overlooked No More: Brad Lomax, a Bridge Between Civil Rights Movements, The New York Times