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Focusing on the 20th and early 21st century
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Helen Keller Publishes Autobiography
Significant view of a disabled's everyday life, the challenges needed to be accomplished each day. -
Indiana Passes Sterilization Laws
Indiana was the first of 29 states to pass a sterilization law, directed at those with genetic illnesses, created to keep the genetic pool free of "impurities". -
Virginia Passes State Law
State law was passed where sterilization was allowed without the consent of the individual directed at those with social and physical handicapped people. -
Buck v. Bell
Supreme Court ruled that forced sterilization wasn't a violation of their constitutional rights. By the 1970s over 60,000 disabled were sterilized without consent. -
Seeing Eye Dogs
Seeing Eye establishes first dog guide school for blind people -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Roosevelt's physical disability was hidden from the public due to the possibility that it would make him a less popular cannidate. -
Euthanasia Poll
Poll shows that 45% of the population favor euthanasia for "defective infants". -
National Federation of the Blind
The National Federation for the Blind was formed in PA. They wanted programs to help the struggle that the blind faced everyday. -
University of Illinois Program Established
The disabled students' program first began creating prototypes of student programs and independant living quarters. -
Brown v Board of Education
Education should be equal on all terms -
President's Commitee Speech
The President's Committee on the Employment for the Physically Handicapped released a speech stating that there would be an investigation of nationwide disabled people's treatment and lives. -
Presidental Committe Speech
The President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped created a speech that was released to the president advising that notible changes be made to the living and treatment of the physically disabled. -
The Paralympics
First Paralymics were started to the rehabilitate those with physical disabilities. -
Panel on Mental Retardation
President Kennedy appoints a special panel to investigate those with mental and physical problems and how society and living is for them. -
Physical Disabilites Act Passed
Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963 was passed. Shuts down harmful instituations and places the disabled into medical facilities -
Medicare and Medicaid
Medicare and Medicaid created to help those unable to work due to mental illness or physical disabilities -
Virginia Law Repealed
The law help in place by Buck v Bell was repealed though many were still sterilized without consent until 1972 -
Independant Living
The first independant living housing for the disabled was created in CA. Was run by and for those with disabilites. -
Disabled in Action
The disabled banned together to protest President Nixon's veto of the Rehabilitation Act in New York City. -
Rehabilitation Act
An act that was created to help rehabilitate and provide physical therapy for those in need. Abolished elder treatments of the disabled. -
North Carolina Building Code
Statewide building code was passed to allow access requirements to all buildings in the state. -
Education Act
Education for All Handicapped Children Act passes, which provided each state with funding for schooling programs for those with disabilites. -
Fair Housing Amendments
These amendments gave protection to those in assisted housing. -
Americans with Disabilites Act
Act created to tie loose ends of all laws and acts, ment to well round and form a safety net for those with disabilities. -
Holland v Sacramento City Unified School District
Final federal appeals court ruling and affirms the right that disabled children can go to a public school and attend classes with those who don't have physical disabilties. -
Individuals with Disabilities Amendments
Amendments made to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to create more equal rights to those in schools. -
Virginia Resolution
The Common Wealth of Virginia House of Delegates released an apology regretting the eugentics practices between 1924-1979 -
No Child Left Behind Act
This Act produced huge gains and outcomes to decrease the gap between the mentally and physically handicapped and "normal" citizens.