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In May of 1946, Paul Ellis sponsored a day of fishing on a charter boat off of Point Dume for disabled veterans housed at the Birmingham Veteran's Administration Hospital in nearby Van Nuys, California. Here the vets pose with their catch after…

Bay Area employers expressed concern yesterday that the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act could hamper their flexibility in making personnel decisions, depending on how narrowly or broadly the measure is interpreted. When President Bush signed…

The article presents a discussion about handicapped people in the United States. In the past, most people have treated the handicapped people, like the blind and the deaf, unfairly. Some saw them as bad omens or cursed by gods. Treatment of the…

Disability activists a part of ADAPT abandon their wheelchairs and mobility devices and crawl up the steps of the United States Capitol Building, demanding the passage of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) on March 12, 1990. More than 1,000…

In April 1977, disability activists nationwide picketed or occupied the Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) offices to fight for the passage of Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act. The largest and longest protest took place at the HEW offices…

The U.S. White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals met in Washington D.C., May 23-27, 1977. It was the first White House Conference devoted solely to the problems and potentials of handicapped people and it brought together the largest number…

Presented is a compilation of The Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act (P.L. 91-517) and its amendment, the Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (P.L. 94-103). The document contains three sections:…

Summarizes provisions of P.L. 91-517, the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Amendments of 1970, which amended P.L. 88-164, the Mental Retardation Facilities and Construction Act of 1964, to assist States in developing a…

The Rolling Devils pose for a team photo c. 1947. By the spring of 1948, World War II paralyzed veterans played a game of wheelchair basketball at New York's Madison Square Garden. With over 15, 561 boisterous spectators, the event foreshadows the…

Reports on the approval of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 in response to the widespread recognition of the right of handicapped children to an adequate education in the U.S. Evaluation of the Act's procedural system;…