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A comedic retelling of the Judith Heumann led protest for Section 504

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A comedic retelling of the Judith Heumann led protest for Section 504

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Judith Heumann’s Fight for Disability Rights (feat. Ali Stroker) - Drunk History

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30th Anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act

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30th Anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act

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EveryBody: An Artifact History of Disability in America

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Full citizenship entails full inclusion. Citizens successfully challenged legal inequalities around race, culminating in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision by the Supreme Court that struck down legal segregation. In the decades that followed, women, Native Americans, lesbian, bi-sexual, gay and transgender people, Chicanos and Latinos, and other groups pushed to extend the rights of citizenship.

The Disability Rights Movement, organized in the 1970s, has been similar to other movements in important ways. Attitudes needed changing for social change to happen. Paternalism thwarted access to basic rights like education, marriage, work, and housing. Segregation and discrimination contributed to poverty and isolation.

The Disability Rights Movement has been unlike other movements in important ways, however. For social change to occur, architectural barriers also needed changing. Necessary accommodation and services were different than those for other groups. And because disability crosses race, class, and gender, and people came to it in many different ways, affiliations and expectations also varied.

Laura Hershey (1962-2010) was a lifelong disability activist and writer who lived in Denver. This poem captures the importance of advocacy and the motivation behind the work done by disability activists.

You Get Proud By Practicing

by Laura Hershey
If you are not proud
For who you are, for what you say, for how you look;
If every time you stop
To think of yourself, you do not see yourself glowing
With golden light; do not, therefore, give up on yourself.
You can get proud. Power makes you proud, and power
Comes in many fine forms
Supple and rich as butterfly wings.
It is music
when you practice opening your mouth
And liking what you hear
Because it is the sound of your own
True voice. Remember, you weren't the one
Who made you ashamed,
But you are the one
Who can make you proud.
Just practice,
Practice until you get proud, and once you are proud,
Keep practicing so you won't forget.
You get proud
By practicing.

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Full citizenship entails full inclusion. Citizens successfully challenged legal inequalities around race, culminating in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision by the Supreme Court that struck down legal segregation. In the decades that followed, women, Native Americans, lesbian, bi-sexual, gay and transgender people, Chicanos and Latinos, and other groups pushed to extend the rights of citizenship.

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The first President of the American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities

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Father of the independent living movement for people with disabilities and special needs

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January 23 has been named Ed Roberts Day in California, in honor of the Cal alum who pioneered the disability-rights movement on campus and nationwide.

Roberts, who was the first Berkeley student to rely on a wheelchair when he arrived in 1962, is recognized as the father of the independent living movement for people with disabilities and special needs. He died in 1995.

The legislative bill establishing the Ed Roberts Day, to be marked yearly as a day of "special significance" in California's schools, came about in part because of the behind-the-scenes advocacy efforts of Berkeley senior Alex Ghenis.

Berkeley's Disabled Students Program placed Ghenis, a geography major, in a paid internship this summer in the Oakland office of California Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, who sponsored Senate Bill 1256, which sets aside every Jan. 23 as Ed Roberts Day.

Ghenis, who is the immediate past president of the campus's Disabled Students Union, worked to gain support for the bill, which passed the Legislature unanimously and was signed by the governor on July 19.

Paul Hippolitus, DSP director, knew Roberts and says that he would have been proud to know that a current Berkeley student was involved in the effort. "Not in memorializing him - he wouldn't have cared much about that," says Hippolitus. "But he would have really appreciated the fact that there will be a day dedicated to disability awareness across the school system."

Roberts had been in a wheelchair since he contracted polio at age 14. When he transferred to Berkeley from the College of San Mateo, he brought with him the 800 pound iron lung he needed for sleeping. But because of it, he met with resistance when he sought campus housing.

At the time, it was legal and common practice in the United States for institutions to refuse admission to people with disabilities, says Hippolitus. "You could say, 'We can't accommodate you,' and there was no recourse," he recalls. "Ed didn't accept that."

The director of Cowell Hospital (then Berkeley's student health center) offered Roberts a room in an empty wing on the third floor. A dozen severely disabled students followed his lead, moving in as well.

They called themselves "The Rolling Quads," and Roberts was their leader. They pressured the campus to become more accessible and to fund support services so that they could attend classes while living independently.

"Ed pushed and prodded and argued and convinced people it was wrong" to discriminate against people with disabilities, says Hippolitus. And, he added, Roberts helped disabled people shift their perspective "from being an object of pity and charity - which was forced upon them but they passively accepted - to saying, 'No, that's wrong.' "

Roberts' persistence paid off. The Rolling Quads' advocacy helped launch the Physically Disabled Students Program, the first such student-led campus organization in the country. That program gave rise to Berkeley's Center for Independent Living, which became a national model for disability advocacy.

Roberts earned a B.A. in 1964 and an M.A. in 1966, both in political science. He also taught in Berkeley's political science department for six years. Roberts went on to lead the Center for Independent Living. In 1975, Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Roberts director of the Department of Rehabilitation, a position he held until 1983, when he co-founded the World Institute on Disability.

The creation of the commemorative day coincides with the completion of the Ed Roberts Campus, which is slated to open in September at the Ashby BART station in South Berkeley. The center will bring together a broad range of disability-related services and programs in one location.

The campus continues efforts to make older facilities fully accessible to wheelchair riders. For more information about campus accessibility, see the online Campus Access Guide.

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Ed Roberts, disability-rights leader and Cal alum, gets his own state day

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January 23 has been named Ed Roberts Day in California, in honor of the Cal alum who pioneered the disability-rights movement on campus and nationwide. Roberts, who was the first Berkeley student to rely on a wheelchair when he arrived in 1962, is recognized as the father of the independent living movement for people with disabilities and special needs.

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Pioneered for equality for people with disibilities

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Two Activists who use typing to communicate share their journey in this documentary

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Official Wretches & Jabberers Trailer (Captioned)

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Spoken word poetry about the pressure to "fix" a disability

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The events of the disability rights movement 1817-2005

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A law protecting individuals with disabilities

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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became law in 1990. The ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public. The purpose of the law is to make sure that people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else. The ADA gives civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities similar to those provided to individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, and religion. It guarantees equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in public accommodations, employment, transportation, state and local government services, and telecommunications. The ADA is divided into five titles (or sections) that relate to different areas of public life.

In 2008, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) was signed into law and became effective on January 1, 2009. The ADAAA made a number of significant changes to the definition of "disability." The changes in the definition of disability in the ADAAA apply to all titles of the ADA, including Title I (employment practices of private employers with 15 or more employees, state and local governments, employment agencies, labor unions, agents of the employer and joint management labor committees); Title II (programs and activities of state and local government entities); and Title III (private entities that are considered places of public accommodation).

Title I (Employment)

Equal Employment Opportunity for Individuals with Disabilities

This title is designed to help people with disabilities access the same employment opportunities and benefits available to people without disabilities. Employers must provide reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants or employees. A reasonable accommodation is any modification or adjustment to a job or the work environment that will enable an applicant or employee with a disability to participate in the application process or to perform essential job functions.

This portion of the law is regulated and enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Employers with 15 or more employees must comply with this law. The regulations for Title I define disability, establish guidelines for the reasonable accommodation process, address medical examinations and inquiries, and define "direct threat" when there is significant risk of substantial harm to the health or safety of the individual employee with a disability or others.

More information and events related to ADA Title I (Employment).

Title II (State and Local Government)

Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in State and Local Government Services

Title II of the ADA prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in all programs, activities, and services of public entities. It applies to all state and local governments, their departments and agencies, and any other instrumentalities or special purpose districts of state or local governments. It clarifies the requirements of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, for public transportation systems that receive federal financial assistance, and extends coverage to all public entities that provide public transportation, whether or not they receive federal financial assistance. It establishes detailed standards for the operation of public transit systems, including commuter and intercity rail (e.g., AMTRAK).

This title outlines the administrative processes to be followed, including requirements for self-evaluation and planning; requirements for making reasonable modifications to policies, practices, and procedures where necessary to avoid discrimination; architectural barriers to be identified; and the need for effective communication with people with hearing, vision and speech disabilities. This title is regulated and enforced by the U.S. Department of Justice.

More information and events related to ADA Title II (State and Local Government).

Title III (Public Accommodations)

Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations and in Commercial Facilities

This title prohibits private places of public accommodation from discriminating against individuals with disabilities. Examples of public accommodations include privately-owned, leased or operated facilities like hotels, restaurants, retail merchants, doctor's offices, golf courses, private schools, day care centers, health clubs, sports stadiums, movie theaters, and so on. This title sets the minimum standards for accessibility for alterations and new construction of facilities. It also requires public accommodations to remove barriers in existing buildings where it is easy to do so without much difficulty or expense. This title directs businesses to make "reasonable modifications" to their usual ways of doing things when serving people with disabilities. It also requires that they take steps necessary to communicate effectively with customers with vision, hearing, and speech disabilities. This title is regulated and enforced by the U.S. Department of Justice.

More information and events related to ADA Title III (Public Accommodations).

Title IV (Telecommunications)

This title requires telephone and Internet companies to provide a nationwide system of interstate and intrastate telecommunications relay services that allows individuals with hearing and speech disabilities to communicate over the telephone. This title also requires closed captioning of federally funded public service announcements. This title is regulated by the Federal Communication Commission.

More information and events related to ADA Title IV (Telecommunications).

Title V (Miscellaneous Provisions)

The final title contains a variety of provisions relating to the ADA as a whole, including its relationship to other laws, state immunity, its impact on insurance providers and benefits, prohibition against retaliation and coercion, illegal use of drugs, and attorney's fees. This title also provides a list of certain conditions that are not to be considered as disabilities.

Future ADA Issues

What Barriers Still Exist For People With Disabilities?

[Captioned Video -- 1:10 min.]

Disability and Our Aging Population

[Captioned Video -- 1:42 min.]

Changes in Technology 2

[Captioned Video -- 1:11 min.]

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What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?

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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became law in 1990. The ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public.

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A 1990s protest to past the American with Disability Act (ADA

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Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

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Uploaded by Alice Elliott on 2013-12-08.