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DisabilityNation|In Their Own Words; Reflecting on 25 Years Part I Episode
DN71: Earlier this year Members of ADAPT celebrated 25 years of advocacy and action designed to improve the lives of people with disabilities. As part of that celebration, a special exhibit was published that features photos and narratives, both in written and audio format, providing accounts of the 50 actions that have been held over the organization's 25-year history.
ADAPT has a long history of organizing in the disability community and using civil disobedience and similar non- violent direct action tactics to achieve its goals. In 1983, as a project of the Atlantis Community in Denver, ADAPT began its national campaign for lifts on buses and access to public transit for people with disabilities. ADAPT started as American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit. For seven years ADAPT blocked buses in cities across the US to demonstrate the need for access to public transit. Many went to jail for the right to ride.
This episode of DisabilityNation features three select narratives from the early years of ADAPT. Barbara Toomer and Bob Kafka provide a look at the earliest years of ADAPT and their first actions which were held in Denver in 1983 and Washington DC in 1984. Then, we fast-forward to the spring of 1990 and hear from Michael Winters as members of ADAPT crawled up the steps of the United States Capital demanding passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Transcripts Available
Please click on the names of the individuals in the previous paragraph to access the full written narrative of their audio presentations which are included in this episode. Also, you can get a transcript of the news segment here.
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[ Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:34:08 -0700 ]
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