Mainstream magazine, chronicling national disability politics
By: Cynthia Jones, Mainstream magazine editor and publisher ; William Stothers, journalist and managing editor of Mainstream magazine. Interviews conducted by Mary Lou Breslin and Susan O'Hara in 1999. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Stothers, William, 1940-; Breslin, Mary Lou, 1944-; O'Hara, Susan, 1938-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: Mainstream (San Diego, Calif.); Journalists with disabilities -- Interviews.; Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- Interviews.; People with disabilities -- United States -- Periodicals.; People with disabilities -- United States -- Social conditions.; People with disabilities -- United States -- Political activity.
Genres: Interviews.; Periodicals.
Other titles: Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series.
Description: contracting and living with effects of polio; UC San Diego in the sixties, accessibility issues; Episcopal Women's Caucus and other church work; practice of real estate specializing in accessible housing; myths about disability; passage of American with Disabilities Act (ADA) and advising state and national government groups on disability issues; promotion of opportunities for the able disabled through the media.

polio epidemic in the U.S. and Canada; childhood years in rehabilitation hospitals; mainstream schooling and University of Western Ontario; work as journalist for Globe and Mail, and Toronto Star; University of California, Berkeley gradutate school impact; independent living movement in Canada and U.S.; meeting spouse Cynthia Jones at White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals, 1977; San Diego Union career; reflections on Justin Dart, media coverage for people with disabilities, accessibility issues; history of Mainstream Magazine and its accomplishments.