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This established benefits and grants for states to assit blind individuals and disabled children.
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This is the first cross-disabilty, national political organization in the United States.
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These Amendments established a program to aid the permanently and totally disabled (APTD).
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President Kennedy appointed this special panel to reserach the status of individuals with mental retardation, in order to create reforms for improvement.
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The American National Standard Institute (ANSI) published American Standard Specifications for Making Buildings Accessible to, and Usable by, the Physically Handicapped. This became the basis for all proceeding architectural access codes.
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The Architectural Barriers Act declared that all federally constructed buildings and facilities must be accessible to people with physical disabilities. This Act is generally considered the first federal disability rights legislation.
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This Center was established at the University of Notre Dame and became the first legal advocacy center for people with disabilities in the U.S.
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This Act provided federal funds to programs supporting people with developmental disabilities and delineated rights of institutionalized individuals.
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This established the right of children with disabilities to a public school education in an integrated environment. This Act is considered a significant landmark of federal disability rights legislation.
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Disability rights activists held demonstrations at the federal department of Health Education Welfare with the goal of influencing the Carter administration to implement regulations on the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. On April 28, the regulations were signed.
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Disability rights activists in Denver hold a sit-in to block the city's Regional Transit Authority buses, protesting the inaccessibility of the transit system.
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This organization conducted civil disobedience campaigns against the American Public Transit Association and local transit systems to protest the lack of accessible public transportation.
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This Act prohibits airlines from refusing to serve people or charging them more for airfare because they are disabled.
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Organized by the American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit, this demonstration attracted hundreds of disabled people to D.C. in support of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Signed by President George Bush, this Act is the largest disability rights legislation in history, bringing full citizenship to Americans with disabilities.
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While Chicago held the first Disability Pride Parade in 2004, thousands of people now particpate in these parades around the nation.
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This act overturned interpretations made by conservative judges who systematically thwarted the original content of the ADA.
