US Disability History – Bibliography

Austermuhle, Martin. (2016). From Institution to Inclusion. WAMU FM. https://projects.wamu.org/from-institution-to-inclusion/

Baldini, Bill. (1968). Suffer the Little Children (video). NBC10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIepqvHii-M

Berne, Patty. (2015) Disability Justice – a working draft. Sins Invalid. https://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/disability-justice-a-working-draft-by-patty-berne

Burch, Susan. (2021). Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469661629/committed/

Cohen, Sascha. (2015). Helen Keller’s Forgotten Radicalism. Time Magazine. https://time.com/3923213/helen-keller-radicalism/

Cone, Kitty. Short History of the 504 Sit-in. Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund. https://dredf.org/504-sit-in-20th-anniversary/short-history-of-the-504-sit-in/

Connelly, Eileen. (2020). Overlooked No More: Brad Lomax, a Bridge Between Civil Rights Movements. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/obituaries/brad-lomax-overlooked.html

Crowley, Maddie. (2023). Disability History: The 1977 504 Sit-In. Disability Rights Florida. https://disabilityrightsflorida.org/blog/entry/504-sit-in-history

Day, Al-Mohamed (Director). (2019). The Invalid Corps (documentary). https://gifilmfestivalsd.org/2019/movies/the-invalid-corps/

Downey, Dennis. (2023). US Supreme Court affirms the rights of people with disabilities. LancasterOnline. https://lancasteronline.com/opinion/columnists/us-supreme-court-affirms-the-rights-of-people-with-disabilities-column/article_2ede3b76-2ca7-11ee-8251-938951567b02.html

Goodwin, Christopher. (2023). What Difference Does a (Disabled) Husband Make? Disabled Veterans, Women, and the Limits of Population Policy in the Third Reich. Journal of Family History. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03631990231177794

Kratz, Jessie. (2020). Treating Race at St. Elizabeths Hospital. Pieces of History, a blog of the National Archives. https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2020/08/31/treating-race-at-st-elizabeths-hospital/

Luterman, Sara. (2022) 31 states have laws that allow forced sterilizations, new report shows. The 19th News. https://19thnews.org/2022/02/forced-sterilization-guardianship-reproductive-justice/

McAleer, James. (2011). Mobility redux: Post-World War II prosthetics and functional aids for veterans, 1945 to 2010. Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development. https://www.rehab.research.va.gov/jour/11/482/mcaleergsted.html

Perry, David M. (2018). How “Deaf President Now” Changed America. Pacific Standard. https://psmag.com/education/how-deaf-president-now-changed-america

Rice, Danica (2015). Before the ADA, there was Deaf President Now. National Archives. https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2015/08/03/deaf-president-now-and-the-25th-anniversary-of-the-ada/

Rivera, Geraldo. (1972). The Last Great Disgrace (video). ABC7NY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPvQpWEdxoY

Robinson, S., Jan, I., Fisher, K., and others. (2023). How do self-advocates use community development to change attitudes to disability? British Journal of Learning Disabilities. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bld.12549

Rosenthal, Keith. (2013). Pioneers in the fight for disability rights: The League of the Physically Handicapped. International Socialist Review. Issue #90. https://isreview.org/issue/90/pioneers-fight-disability-rights/

Ross, Nathaniel (2022). Mills v. Board of Education of District of Columbia (1972). The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/mills-v-board-education-district-columbia-1972

Stawicki, Elizabeth (1997). A Haunting Legacy: Canton Insane Asylum for American Indians. State of South Dakota-Lincoln County. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~sdlincol/hiawatha.htm

Stein, Perry (2017). Disability advocates arrested during health care protest at McConnell’s office. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/disability-advocates-arrested-during-health-care-protest-at-mcconnells-office/2017/06/22/f5dd9992-576f-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html

Summers, Martin. (2019). 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. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/madness-in-the-city-of-magnificent-intentions-9780190852641

Vargas, Theresa. (2023). A Black disabled teen went unheard in prison. People are now listening. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/25/neli-latson-white-house-disabled/

The Right to Self-Determination: Freedom from Involuntary Sterilization. Disability Justice. https://disabilityjustice.org/right-to-self-determination-freedom-from-involuntary-sterilization/

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