KNES 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Disability Rights Movement, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rehabilitation Act Of 1973
5 Jun 2016
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Lecture #4 a brief history of the disability rights movement. 1800"s tragic, pitiful individuals who are unfit and unable. Franklin delano roosevelt president from 1933 1945. President franklin roosevelt, the first president with a disability, was a great advocated for the rehabilitation of people with disabilities. But it was still operated under the notion that a disability was an abnormal, shameful condition, and should be medically cured or fixed. Pressure on the government to provide them with rehabilitation and vocational training. First student with severe disabilities to attend the university of california, berkeley. Lobbying for self-determination of a minority community. Demanding national initiatives to address the physical and social barriers facing the disability community. Parents advocates demanding that their children be taken out of institutions and asylums and placed into schools where their children could have the opportunity to engage in society just like children who were not disabled. Disability rights activists lobbied congress and march on washington.
