Disabilities Act History

The history of the American Disabilities Act did not begin on July 26, 1990 at the signing ceremony at the White House. It did not begin in 1988 when the first American Disabilities Act was introduced in Congress. The American Disabilities Act story began a long time ago in cities and towns throughout the United States when people with disabilities began to challenge societal barriers that excluded them from their communities, and when parents of children with disabilities began to fight against the exclusion and segregation of their children. It began with the establishment of local groups to advocate for the rights of people with disabilities. It began with the establishment of the independent living movement which challenged the notion
This commitment was always put to the test. The disability community as a whole resisted any proposals made by various members of Congress to keep away people with AIDS or mental illness or to otherwise narrow the class of people covered. Even at the eleventh hour, after two years of endless working and a Senate and House vote in favor of the Act, the disability community held fast with the AIDS community to eliminate the amendment which would have kept food handlers with AIDS away,
If the American Disabilities Act means anything it means that people with disabilities will no longer be out of mind. The American Disabilities Act is based on a basic presumption that people with disabilities want to work and are capable of working, want to be members of their communities and are capable of being members of their communities and that exclusion and segregation cannot be tolerated. Accommodating a person with a disability is not a matter of charity but instead an issue of civil rights. While some in the media portray this new era as falling from the sky unannounced, thousands of men and women in the disability rights movement know that these rights were hard fought for and are long overdue. The american disabilities act is radical only in comparison to a shameful history of outright exclusion and segregation of people with disabilities. From a civil rights perspective the Americans with Disabilities Act is a codification of simple justice. The American disabilities act helped disabled individuals live their lives. The disabled individual can now live without any more disadvantages, we are now equal as we should've been from the