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Disability Rights Movement Overview

The Disability Rights Movement in the United States from 1964 to 1975 focused on advocating for equal rights and improving the quality of life for people with disabilities, addressing issues such as employment, education, housing, and public accommodations. Key legislative milestones included the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, which collectively aimed to eliminate discrimination and ensure equal access. The movement emerged alongside other civil rights struggles, emphasizing that individuals with disabilities are normal Americans deserving of equal rights and recognition.

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Disability Rights Movement Overview

The Disability Rights Movement in the United States from 1964 to 1975 focused on advocating for equal rights and improving the quality of life for people with disabilities, addressing issues such as employment, education, housing, and public accommodations. Key legislative milestones included the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, which collectively aimed to eliminate discrimination and ensure equal access. The movement emerged alongside other civil rights struggles, emphasizing that individuals with disabilities are normal Americans deserving of equal rights and recognition.

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DISABILITY RIGHTS

MOVEMENT
BRENDAN ALLISON, M ASON COULTER, M ARC HAUPT
WHAT WAS What were
GOING ON they striving for
• THE DISABILITY RIGHTS
MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED -Equal Rights in
STATES DURING THE 1964-1975
• Employment
PERIOD WAS MARKED BY A
GROWING AWARENESS OF THE • Education
DISCRIMINATION AND • Housing
MARGINALIZATION FACED BY • Transportation
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, AS • Public Accommodations
WELL AS INCREASING EFFORTS
• Deinstitutionalization
TO ADVOCATE FOR THEIR
RIGHTS AND IMPROVE THEIR
QUALITY OF LIFE
CONTINUITY OR COT.
• Gradually changed over time
• Today, accommodations for people with disabilities have been
normalized
• Acts
• Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• Equal opportunity in employment
• Prohibited discrimination
• Equal access to public services
• Education for All Handicapped Children Act
• Equal opportunity for education
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Equivalent to the civil rights act of 1964 but for people with
disabilities
• Grouped everything together (employment, prohibited
discrimination, much more accommodations in public services)
DOCUMENT AND HIPP

H – IN THE 1950S AND 1960S DIFFERENT


GROUPS, LIKE AFRICAN AMERICANS AND
WOMEN, WERE FIGHTING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
AND EQUALITY. IN THE 1960S AND 1970S,
PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY WERE OFTEN
VIEWED AS OUTCASTS AND WERE REJECTED BY
SOME CULTURES.
I – AMERICAN PUBLIC.
P – POSITIVE TOWARDS EQUAL RIGHTS FOR
THE DISABLED. DISABLED PEOPLE ARE NORMAL
AMERICANS WITH THEIR OWN VOICES.
P – TO SPREAD AWARENESS TO THE DISABILITY
RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND DEPICT THE WILL
AND ABILITY OF THE DISABLED.

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