What is your research focused on? Erkulwater: My current work involves trying to understand why people of color seem to be missing in debates about disability rights. People of color, especially ...

DENVER — A small museum tucked inside the offices of Atlantis Community Inc. is working to preserve and share the largely untold history of the disability rights movement in Denver nearly five decades ...

On the day after the Fourth of July in 1978, a group of young disabled people blocked two city buses at one of the busiest intersections in downtown Denver – to declare their right to live ...

Over 8,000 artifacts, documents, books, and photographs conveying the history of the disability rights movement are at the Museum of Disability History at the Viscardi Center on Long Island, New York.

The California State Assembly recently passed a resolution declaring the second week of October 2010 as Disability History Week. The University of California will observe Disability History Week this ...

When Ari Ne’eman heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. call autism an “epidemic” that “destroys families,” Ne’eman felt like he had stepped into a time machine — heading in the wrong direction. It was during an ...

Childhood -- Institutions, part 1 -- Discrimination, part 1 -- Institutions, part 2 -- The University of Illinois -- Discrimination, part 2, and early advocacy -- The parents' movement -- Activists ...

Introduction / Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen -- Part I. Concepts and questions. The perils and promises of disability biography / Kim E. Nielsen -- Disability history and Greco ...

Thirty-five years after being signed into law, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) continues to protect the rights of people with disabilities. Join the Missouri History Museum for keynote ...

A few years ago, curriculum specialist Richard Cairn showed a photo from the World War II era to two young men he was working with on a campaign to promote teaching disability history. The image shows ...