{"product_id":"what-we-have-done-an-oral-history-of-the-disability-rights-movement","title":"What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eNothing about us without us has been a core principle of American disability rights activists for more than half a century. It represents a response by people with disabilities to being treated with scorn and abuse or as objects of pity  and to having the most fundamental decisions relating to their liveswhere they would live; if and how they would be educated; if they would be allowed to marry or have families; indeed  if they would be permitted to live at allmade by those who were  in the parlance of the movement  temporarily able-bodied.  In What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement  Fred Pelka takes that slogan at face value. He presents the voices of disability rights activists who  in the period from 1950 to 1990  transformed how society views people with disabilities  and recounts how the various streams of the movement came together to push through the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990  the most sweeping civil rights legislation since passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Beginning with the stories of those who grew up with disabilities in the 1940s and 50s  the book traces how disability came to be seen as a political issue  and how people with disabilitiesoften isolated  institutionalized  and marginalizedforged a movement analogous to the civil rights  womens rights  and gay rights movements  and fought for full and equal participation in American society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44958126964789,"sku":"ByrdShop_1558499199","price":27.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781558499195.jpg?v=1770365401","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/what-we-have-done-an-oral-history-of-the-disability-rights-movement","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}