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Cover 1 Front Matter 2 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 1. A Civil Rights Law for Disabled People 14 2. From Good Will to Civil Rights 26 3. The Genesis of Section 504 52 4. Writing the Regulation for Section 504 71 5. Advocacy and the HEW Regulation 93 6. Policy Dissemination 132 7. Symbolic Victories:The Evolution of Section 504 150 Epilogue 180 Appendixes 198 Notes 208 Index 222 Publisher:Temple University Press,Published:2001,ISBN:9781439901007,Language:English,OCLC:326878073 Now that curb cuts, braille elevator buttons, and closed caption television are commonplace, many people assume that disabled people are now full participants in American society. This book tells a rather different story. It tells how America's disabled mobilized to effect sweeping changes in public policy, not once but twice, and it suggests that the struggle is not yet over. The first edition of From Good Will to Civil Rights traced the changes in federal disability policy, focusing on the development and implementation of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Richard K. Scotch's extensive interviews with policymakers, leaders of the disability rights movement, and other advocates, supplemented the

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Author

Scotch, Richard

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282047204

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Law, Social_sciences