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portada An Independent Man. Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disability Rights
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2025
Language
English
Pages
432
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
16.30 x 23.80 x 3.40 cm
ISBN13
9780520412644

An Independent Man. Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disability Rights

Scot Danforth (Author) · University of California Press · Hardcover

An Independent Man. Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disability Rights - Scot Danforth

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Synopsis "An Independent Man. Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disability Rights"


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\nThe first biography of one of the founders of the disability rights movement, An Independent Man chronicles the life of an activist who reimagined the meaning of equality and inspired generations of reformers. Before Jonas Salk's vaccine, polio was a social death sentence. The disabled were expected to disappear into their limitations, pitied by those around them. This might have been the story of Ed Roberts, paralyzed and consigned to sleep in an iron lung. But Roberts insisted on what all people deserve: a full life. Scot Danforth deftly captures Roberts's adventurous personality and radical vision, chronicling his life from his student activist days at the University of California, Berkeley, in the early 1960s to his career highlights of establishing the pioneering Center for Independent Living and directing California's Department of Rehabilitation. By insisting that disabled persons are valuable members of society, and by translating his ideas into action, Roberts laid the ground for the Americans with Disabilities Act and the ongoing movement for equality.

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