Advocacy: History of the Disability Rights Movement in the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walt Bower ◽  
Kathy Sheppard-Jones
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disability Rights Movement ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Teaching and the Experience of Disability: The Pedagogy of Ed Roberts

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 464-488
Author(s):  
Scot Danforth
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
The United States ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Disability Rights Movement ◽  
Main Form ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The World

Ed Roberts was a renowned activist considered to be one of the founding leaders of the American disability rights movement. Although he engaged in numerous political strategies, his main form of activism was teaching in his prolific public speaking career across the United States and around the world. The content and methods of his pedagogy were crafted from his own personal experiences as a disabled man. His teaching featured autobiographic selections from his own life in which he fought and defeated forces of oppression and discrimination. This article examines Roberts’ disability rights teaching in relation to the experiential sources, political content, and teaching techniques.

The Disability Rights Movement in the United States

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Patterson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disability Rights Movement ◽  
Civil Rights Movements

Contrary to the traditional notion that disability rights in the United States were the by-product of the tumultuous 1960s, the disability rights movement actually dates back to the late nineteenth century. Over the years, ordinary citizens and local, national, and international organizations combined in promoting the citizenship rights of disabled people. Excluded from most aspects of public life, people with disabilities championed self-determination through deinstitutionalization, the independent living movement, and access to education, employment, and public transportation. This examination of local, state, and national efforts by people with disabilities to achieve full participation in civic life will help expand our understanding of civil rights movements in modern U.S. history.

scholarly journals Layering, Kludgeocracy and Disability Rights: The Limited Influence of the Social Model in American Disability Policy

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Burke ◽  
Jeb Barnes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Disability Policy ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Welfare Programs ◽  
Disability Rights Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range

The United States has been a leader in the creation of disability rights law, providing a policy template for other nations. Yet the social model, the animating philosophy behind the disability rights movement, has had little effect on the wide range of welfare programs that serve people with disabilities. These programs, whose creation preceded the modern disability rights movement, reflect a medical model of disability that is at odds with the social model. Analysing the Americans with Disabilities Act (which embodies the social model) and Social Security Disability Insurance (the largest welfare program for people with disabilities), we explore how and why this layering of contradictory disability rights and welfare programs developed and how it has been maintained. We argue that the tension between these policies engendered a series of patches, or ‘kludges’, that allow the policies to coexist without meaningful synthesis. We contend that the United States is particularly prone to this layering of ‘tense policies’, but that it is likely characteristic of disability policy in many nations. Finally we argue that accurate benchmarking of disability rights regimes across nations requires analysts to dig through all the layers of disability policy.

Review of A brief history of the United States.

1919 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 414-414
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of

An American Language

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosina Lozano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Spanish Speakers ◽  
Language Recognition ◽  
Political Language ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

An American Language is a political history of the Spanish language in the United States. The nation has always been multilingual and the Spanish language in particular has remained as an important political issue into the present. After the U.S.-Mexican War, the Spanish language became a language of politics as Spanish speakers in the U.S. Southwest used it to build territorial and state governments. In the twentieth century, Spanish became a political language where speakers and those opposed to its use clashed over what Spanish's presence in the United States meant. This book recovers this story by using evidence that includes Spanish language newspapers, letters, state and territorial session laws, and federal archives to profile the struggle and resilience of Spanish speakers who advocated for their language rights as U.S. citizens. Comparing Spanish as a language of politics and as a political language across the Southwest and noncontiguous territories provides an opportunity to measure shifts in allegiance to the nation and exposes differing forms of nationalism. Language concessions and continued use of Spanish is a measure of power. Official language recognition by federal or state officials validates Spanish speakers' claims to US citizenship. The long history of policies relating to language in the United States provides a way to measure how U.S. visions of itself have shifted due to continuous migration from Latin America. Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are crucial arbiters of Spanish language politics and their successes have broader implications on national policy and our understanding of Americans.

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