Attorney, national policy advocate, and spokesperson for disability rights organizations, 1976-1990s [electronic resource] : oral history transcript / Deborah Kaplan ; an interview conducted by Sharon Bonney in 1998. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berke

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Attorney, national policy advocate, and spokesperson for disability rights organizations, 1976-1990s [electronic resource] : oral history transcript / Deborah Kaplan ; an interview conducted by Sharon Bonney in 1998. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2000.

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Youth in Massachusetts, undergraduate study at UC Santa Cruz; disabling accident, 1972; law studies at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley, 1973-1976; work with the Center for Independent Living, Disability Law Resource Center, Disabled Women's Support Group, 1974-1976; establishing the Disability Rights Center, Washington, D.C., 1976; work at the Public Interest Law Center, Philadelphia, 1978; marriage to Ralf Hotchkiss, adoption of son Desmond, discussion of parenthood, life with a disability, aging; attorney for the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, 1980-1985; employment discrimination, developmental disability issues; World Institute on Disability, 1986-1996, executive director since 1997: work on disability access to emerging technologies, the Telecommunications Act of 1996; reflections on Ed Roberts and other disability movement leaders.

Transcript: 1 v. (xxi, 178 p.) : port. ; 29 cm.Phonotapes: 12 sound cassettes.

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According to the University of California, Berkeley Bancroft Library website: "The Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) is a research program of the University of California, Berkeley, working within The Bancroft Library. ROHO conducts, teaches, analyzes, and archives oral and video history documents in a broad variety of subject areas critical to the history of California and the United States." For more information regarding the ROHO and their work please consult their website: http://bancroft....

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The World Institute on Disability (WID) is a non-profit public policy, research, and training center dedicated to independence for all people with disabilities. WID was founded in 1983, in Oakland, California, through the efforts of Edward V. Roberts, Judith E. Heumann, and Joan Leon, longtime disability rights activists. From the description of World Institute on Disability records, 1983-2000. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 123126409 ...

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Deborah Kaplan, born Jan. 17, 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio, is a lawyer involved with Disability Rights. Kaplan founded the Disability Rights Center in 1976 and has also been involved in many organizations including the World Institute on Disability. From the description of Deborah Kaplan papers, 1967-1995. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 52692858 ...

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The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) was established on October 1, 1979 in Berkeley, California by Mary Lou Breslin, Patrisha A. Wright, and Robert Funk. It is a nonprofit national law and policy center run primarily by disabled persons. It is dedicated to protecting and advancing the civil rights of people with disabilities and their families through legislation, litigation, advocacy, technical assistance and the education and training of attorneys, advocates, persons with d...