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A Brief History in the Disability Rights Movement

April Barzalobre

Created on April 14, 2024

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The Path of The Disability Rights Movement

1990

1800s

1935

First offical protest occurs

Everything has a Beginning

Social Secur ity Act

The path continues

First Official Protest

Eugenic Steralization laws

1990 - Present

1907

1977

The first sterilization law is approved by Governor J. Frank in Indiana, this law allowed for the legal sterilization of "criminals, idiots, rapists, and imbeciles in state custody".This law would go on to spread quickly to 24 other states and by 1927 compulsory sterilization was ruled constitutional.

Disability demonstrators led by Judy Heumman takeover the Health Education and Welfare (HEW) office in UN Plaza, San Francisco, California

Both before and after the Americans with disability act was signed people with disabilities have been fighting for their rights and place within society and continue to fight for this within present day society ensuring that one they all there rights shall be met and they be treated like any other member of society fighting not only for there right but for equality in a society that wasn't built with them in mind.