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Disability History

The Minnesota Developmental Disabilities Council has created a Parallels in Time II web site, which features a multimedia history collection about the John F. Kennedy administration's role in initiating new programs for people with disabilities.

California Legislative History - Research guide has useful information on how to research California legislative history. Click on Research Guides and then on California Legislative History.

Disability History Museum - an online museum and library of disability-related articles, illustrations, photographs, some of which date back nearly 200 years.

How to Be Your Own Fair Housing Advocate (html) (Revised 2005, 37 pages, English) Also available in Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Braille from Independent Living Resource Center, 649 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105-4128, 415-543-6222.

“Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability” - Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, Longmore urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender, and class already have been. (Philadelphia: Temple University, 2003), 288 pp.

PAI's history, role and funding - In 1975, after television news exposed horrific abuse and neglect at Willowbrook, a state institution for people with mental retardation on Staten Island, New York Senator Jacob Javits successfully pushed Congress to mandate and fund Protection and Advocacy systems in each state.

Road to Freedom - roadtofreedom.wordpress.com The web site for The Road To Freedom bus tour, a national awareness campaign inspired by the historic journey of Justin and Yoshiko Dart to mobilize support for passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), launched its year-long, cross-country bus journey launched from Washington , DC on November 15th, 2006 .