Disability Social History Project
About the Disability Social History Project
"The Disability History Project is a community history project and we welcome your participation. This is an opportunity for disabled people to reclaim our history and determine how we want to define ourselves and our struggles. People with disabilities have an exciting and rich history that should be shared with the world."
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Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement
"The DRILM collection consists of more than 100 oral histories with leaders and shapers of the disability rights and independent living movement from the 1960s onward and an extensive archive of personal papers of activists and records of key organizations."
Access these collections by:
Alphabetical listing of individuals and organizations
Geographical location of individuals and organizations
Organization name
Research and study topics
"UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, through its Regional Oral History Office, has recorded and continues to record the stories of individuals who have made significant contributions to the origins and achievements of these movements. The Bancroft Library also collects, preserves, and provides access to the papers of organizations and individuals of importance to the struggles for disability rights and independent living. The collection highlights the broad range of strategies and tactics employed, the diverse experience of the activists involved, and the intersection of disability in
Disability Rights Movement
An exhibit by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Note from the curator:
This exhibit physically existed in the gallery from July 2000 to July 2001. Now it is only available on the web.
This Web site represents what a visitor to the museum would encounter when using one of the kiosks in the physical exhibition. The kiosks are Web-based prototypes being developed for museum use. Because of the innovative nature of these prototypes, we have had to test and assess them throughout the process. We have made an effort to get the kiosk material onto the Web in an efficient way that is also widely accessible, but there are a few technical requirements:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator 4.0+, or pwWebSpeak browser.
- Screen resolution of 800x600 or higher recommended.
- For audio and video, a media player that supports MPEG format.
If you experience difficulty, please contact the webmaster.
Book:
The New Disability History: American Perspectives
By Paul Longmore, Lauri Umansky
Below is an excerpt from a review by Brenda Jo Bruggemann
"The New Disability History: American Perspectives is a truly groundbreaking volume and is well-deserving of the praise heaped on its back cover: a "splendid collection" that is "not your father's old-time medical history--it's a broader, brilliant enterprise" (Walter Nugent) and "a cause for celebration" with "the insights popping off each page" (Martha Minow). Co-edited and introduced by Paul Longmore and Lauri Umansky, two scholars of the new disability history themselves, this volume brings together a collection of fourteen essays about disability and disabled people in American history. The essays range from the early nineteenth century to the present, with "a majority of the pieces situated in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries," a period that "draws particular attention" because, as the editors document in their introduction, much of the work around disability in American history at large "point[s] to the half century from around 1880-1930 as a moment of major redefinition" for disabled lives, disability policy, and disability history (p. 22)." Read Full Review
Brenda Jo Bruggemann . "Review of Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky, eds, The New Disability History: American Perspectives," H-Disability, H-Net Reviews, September, 2002. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=144171031912790.
book
Costs And Outcomes Of Community Services For People With Intellectual Disabilities
Edited by Roger J. Stancliffe and K. Charlie, Ph.D. Lakin
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A Chronology of The Disability Rights Movement
The Disability Programs and Resource Center (DPRC)
A Chronology of The Disability Rights Movement
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“In recent years, social paradigms of disability have identified institutionalized discrimination rather than medical pathology as the primary obstacle to the social integration of disabled persons. This new perspective has vast implications for civil-rights laws and social-welfare policies, architectural design and assistive technology, professional training and service delivery in disability-related fields, and core social values.
Professor of History and Director,
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