T he Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation is the first comprehensive history of the disabled community`s ongoing struggle for civil rights. Co-authors Doris Zames Fleischer, a ...

As America approaches its 250th anniversary, reflecting on advances in civil rights highlights the importance of healthcare equity for all Americans. One of the most transformative laws in American ...

Harvard researcher Ari Ne'eman says the policy shifts underway under the Trump administration pose a unique threat to people with disabilities,... When Ari Ne'eman heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. call ...

Disability rights history unveiled inside Denver mini-museum The Disability and Culture Mini-Museum in Denver preserves the history of the disability rights movement sparked by the 1978 protest for ...

This virutal exhibition is the same as the kiosk exhibition at the National Museum of American history. The online exhibition has links to the movement, dissent, technology, mobility, self definition, ...

The disabilities affect everyday living and most often continue throughout life because they impair the physical body, learning, language and/or one’s behavior ...

There's a photograph in Keith Armstrong's newly discovered archive that stops you in your tracks. A man in a wheelchair grins defiantly, surrounded by Metropolitan Police officers. A red London bus ...

Every July, Disability Pride Month celebrates the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This year marks the 35th anniversary of this landmark civil rights law. This month honors the ...

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 ...