WHEN black civil rights campaigner Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama on 1 December 1955 she made history. But in the year 2000 disabled people in the UK are still fighting to get on the bus - never mind sit at the front, branch member and disability activist Keith Armstrong said in a talk to LFB on disability. Most disabled journalists are probably freelance rather than staff members of the NUJ, as it is more likely they work from home, he pointed out.
Disabled people come from all genders, classes and sectors of society.
What makes them disabled is how they are treated by society.