the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) was the culmination of decades of progress for disabilities rights. The movement began as an outshoot of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, gained ...

For more than six decades, the Kennedys were not just allies but architects of the disability rights movement.

So did the disability-rights movement. In 1990 ... of Education does for disabled students,” Jess Davidson of the American Association for People With Disabilities tells me.

James LeBrecht moved to the cradle of the disabled rights ... the movement,” LeBrecht, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker whose new documentary is “Change, Not Charity: The Americans With ...

which builds upon interviews he conducted over a ten-year period with disability rights activists throughout the world. This webinar is free and open to all; however, you must register in order to ...

the disability rights movement, people from the private sector, researchers and the United Nations – to work together to change the narrative on disability, and to make human rights-based development ...

He witnessed firsthand the origins of the movement, as his mother and father played integral roles in advancing disability rights. According to Shaw, one of the earliest victories was a 1966 ...

This course examines the history and progress of the disability rights movement in America, the current state of the law, trends, and prospects for the future, with particular focus on those laws ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A disability-rights case at the Supreme Court grew unusually heated on Monday, including accusations of lying and references to one side’s position being a potential “five ...