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Valentin Huay founds school to teach children who are blind.
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Phillipe Pinel writes Treatise on Insanity leading to the classifications of: melancholy, dementia, mania without delirium, and mania with delirium
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Thomas H. Gallaudet founds the first permanent school for the Deaf in America after traveling in Europe to learn their techniques.
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Louis Braille invents the raised point alphabet often referred to as braille.
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25 US states pass a eugenic sterilization for "confirmed idiots"
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After less than two years in America, my great Dede dies during the "Spanish Flu" pandemic.
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The Works Progress Administration (WPA) denied employment because job seekers were "physically handicapped." 300 members of the LftPH staged a sit in resulting in thousands of jobs being secured.
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The law mandates that all buildings that are "designed, constructed, altered, or leased with federal funds" must be accessible to people with disabilities.
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Held in Chicago. First founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver in 1962.
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Chicago repeals a law that had previously allowed police to arrest or jail people simply because they looked or acted as though they had a disability.
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Laura is born.
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Now called the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the law guarantees a "free, appropriate, public education for all children with disabilities in the least restrictive environment."
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In San Francisco, disability rights activists hold a sit-in for 25 days so that Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 will go into effect. This results in it becoming illegal for federal agencies, public universities, and other public institutions receiving federal aid to discriminate on the basis of disability.
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The Department of Justice now has the power to "sue state or local institutions that violate the rights of people held against their will."
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The law increases funding, access, and availability of assistive technology in states and nationwide.
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Gallaudet University students, faculty, and community demand that the university hire a deaf president.
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"Considered the most important civil rights law since Title 504"
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I was born.
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My oldest niece is born.
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I graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA.
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