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Judith "Judy" Heumann first drew national attention with her fight to become a New York City teacher. She founded Disabled in Action and sued the New York Board of Education to become a teacher. Her case was the first disabled rights case brought to…

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…

The temperature had soared into the mid-90s on the south lawn of the White House as nearly 3,000 invited advocates and supporters of the Americans with Disabilities Act gathered to witness the historic signing. These were members of what California…

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…

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…

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…

Speech by President John F. Kennedy to the Kennedy Foundation Mental Retardation Group and given to Mary Hammerbacher (Manner) as a counselor at Camp Shriver, 1962.
Camp Shriver began in Eunice Shriver’s backyard at her Timberlawn estate in 1962.…