What We Have Done : An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Childhood -- Chapter 2. Institutions, Part1 -- Chapter 3. Discrimination, Part 1 -- Chapter 4. Institutions, Part 2 -- Chapter 5. The University of Illinois -- Chapter 6. Discrimination, Part 2, and Early Advocacy -- Chapter 7. The Parents' Movement -- Chapter 8. Activists and Organizers, Part 1 -- Chapter 9. Institutions, Part 3 -- Chapter 10. Activists and Organizers, Part 2 -- Chapter 11. Independent Living -- Chapter 12. The Disability Press -- Chapter 13. The American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities -- Chapter 14. The Hew Demonstrations -- Chapter 15. Psychiatric Survivors -- Chapter 16. Working the System -- Chapter 17. Institutions, Part 4 -- Chapter 18. Self-Advocates -- Chapter 19. Dredf and the 504 Trainings -- Chapter 20. Activists and Organizers, Part 3 -- Chapter 21. Adapt -- Chapter 22. Deaf President Now! -- Chapter 23. The Americans with Disabilities Act-"the Machinery of Change" -- Chapter 24. Drafting the Bill, Part 1 -- Chapter 25. Insiders, Part 1 -- Chapter 26. Drafting the Bill, Part 2 -- Chapter 27. Lobbying and Gathering Support -- Chapter 28. Mobilizing the Community -- Chapter 29. Experts -- Chapter 30. Insiders, Part 2 -- Chapter 31. Wheels of Justice and the Chapman Amendment -- Chapter 32. Lobbyists -- Chapter 33. Senators -- Chapter 34. Victory -- Chapter 35. Aftermath -- Notes -- Interview Sources -- Index -- Illustrations -- Back Cover.

Draws on first-person accounts of activists, beginning with those who grew up with disabilities in the 1940s and 50s.

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