World Institute on Disability sound recordings collection [sound recording]. ca. 1976-1996.
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World Institute on Disability
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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 ...
Roberts, Edward V., 1939-1995.
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Edward V. Roberts (1939-1995) contracted poliomyelitis in 1953 at the age of 14. Surviving the disease, he became a respiratory quadriplegic. In 1962, Roberts was the first severely disabled student to attend the University of California, Berkeley. He co-founded the Physically Disabled Students Program (PDSP) at Berkeley in 1970, then expanded the program into the community as the Center for Independent Living (CIL) in 1972. Roberts was appointed director of the California State Department of Re...
Heumann, Judith E., 1947-,
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Judith E. Heumann was born on 18 December 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in New York. She was disabled by polio at 18 months. After passing her licensure test for a teaching certificate, she was denied employment with the New York City Public Schools because of her inability to walk. In 1970, she won one of the earliest, if not the first, disability-based employment discrimination lawsuits in the nation. She went on to become an internationally known advocate for disability rights...
