Cofounder and director of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, movement strategist
By: Mary Lou Breslin ; an interview conducted by Susan O'Hara, 1996-1998. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: O'Hara, Susan, 1938-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.; University of California, Berkeley. Physically Disabled Students Program.; Center for Independent Living.; Center for Independent Living. Disability Law Resource Center.; United States.; People with disabilities -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews.; People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Women with disabilities -- Interviews.; People with disabilities -- United States -- Political activity.; Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- Interviews.; Discrimination against people with disabilities.; People with disabilities -- Education (Higher) -- Illinois -- Urbana Champaign.; People with disabilities -- United States -- Social conditions.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series.
Description: Family and childhood in Louisville, KY; contracting polio, 1955, and rehabilitation at Georgia Warm Springs Polio Foundation; University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1962-1966; work for civil rights, anti-Vietnam war 1960s-1970s; job counselor, University of California, Berkeley Physically Disabled Students' Program; growth of Center for Independent Living: Disability Law Resource Center; Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504: demonstrations in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., regulations, training, amendments; Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF): foundation, direction, funding, advocating in Washington D.C.; Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 1990; reflections on disability rights movement leaders Robert Funk, Patrisha Wright, Judith Heumann and others; disability access to buildings, transportation, employment.