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How Fannie Lou Hamer’s disability informed her fight for voting rights
(From The 19th, July 19, 2023) Fannie Lou Hamer’s testimony at the 1964 DNC shook the nation and highlighted the fact that many people didn’t realize that Hamer had a…
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LaTonya Reeves, Advocate for Community-Based Services
From Colorado Developmental Disabilities Council On January 9, 2023, LaTonya S. Reeves died after a short illness. Governor Polis only recently appointed Ms. Reeves to the Colorado Developmental Disabilities Council…
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Hale Zukas – Disabled Advocate & Leader
By Corbett O’Toole Hale Zukas, a pivotal leader on accessible public transportation, architectural barriers, data related to disability and personal assistance services, died this week. Hale did the grueling work…
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Signing Black in America
(From Talking Black in America) SIGNING BLACK in AMERICA is the first documentary about Black ASL: the unique dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) that developed within historically segregated African American…
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Lois Curtis, Disability Rights Activist Who Won a Landmark Civil Rights Case (1967 – 2022)
Fighting for the right to live in the community and establishing the right of people with disabilities to live independently Lois Curtis was a disabled African American woman who lived…
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Disabled American Veterans Start Spy Ring in the 1930s to Thwart Nazi Groups in US
Reprint from DAV (Disabled American Veterans) posted on JANUARY 9, 2018 BY STEVEN WILSON New book details how DAV founding members foiled Nazi plans to launch attacks on American soil Newly resurfaced evidence…
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Roberta Griffith…Empowered, not Impaired
(Reprint from the Michigan History magazine in the January/February 2016 issue) Roberta Griffith founded the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired in 1913. When Roberta Griffith graduated from Western…
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Join Us in a Dream: A National Museum of Disability History and Culture
Reprint from the National Council on Public History 14 JUNE 2022 – HENRY J. KENNEDY AND NATHAN R. STENBERG It is time for a Smithsonian National Museum of Disability History and Culture. Considering…