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During this time people with disabilities were considered pitiful, unfit, and unable people.
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People with disabilities began to fight for the noticeability of disabilities as an part of identity that influences the experiences of an individual, not the person.
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Government assistance began helping those with a disability.
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Roosvelt had a disability though he was an advocate for the rehabilitation of people with disabilities. He still operated under the notion that a disability was an abnormal, shameful condition, and should be medically cured or fixed.
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The government was neglecting the veterans and did not assist them with the rehabilitation they needed.
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This Act found that the civil rights movement started to take off, they then decided to join with the minorities.
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They marched to congress and demanded to be included in the civil rights and the Rehabilitation Act
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The civil rights of people with disabilities were now protected by law! Equal Employment, Public Services, and Vocational Training were all offered to people with disabilities.
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Education for All Handicapped Children Act was passed to ensure that all students with disabilities were able to have an education.
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"In the 1980s, disability activists began to lobby for a consolidation of various pieces of legislation under one broad civil rights statute that would protect the rights of people with disabilities, much like the 1964 Civil Rights Act had achieved for Black Americans. "
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Education for All Handicapped Children Act was renamed to the IDEA
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The Americans with Disabilities Act was finally passed
