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Political organizer for disability rights, 1970s-1990s, and strategist for Section 504 demonstrations, 1977 : oral history
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Political organizer for disability rights, 1970s-1990s, and strategist for Section 504 demonstrations, 1977 : oral history transcript / 2000Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Cone, Kitty, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Landes, David L. (David Lamont), 1941-2008, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Family background in Champaign, IL; education in the South, Japan, and Washington, D.C.; muscular dystrophy diagnosis, health
care, family support; University of Illinois, 1962-1967: Rehabilitation Center, civil rights activism, Students for a Democratic
Society; political organizing for Socialist Workers Party, 1967-1974, in Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Berkeley; political
organizing for Center for Independent Living, including issues of curb ramps, attendant care, access to transportation (BART,
AC Transit, SF Muni), architectural access; lesbian life in the United States and Mexico; HEW's 504 regulations: importance,
sit-in to guarantee signature, implementation, 1977-1979; adoption of and raising of son, Jorge; working for disability civil
rights at World Institute on Disability, CIL, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF); reflections on feminism,
racism, paternalism, medical insurance; reflections on Mary Lou Breslin, Judy Heumann, Ed Roberts, Hale Zukas, Brad Seligman;
passage of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 1990; comments on substance abuse, environmental and mental disabilities,
HIV-AIDS.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPeople with disabilities -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews
People with disabilities -- Political activity -- California -- San Francisco
Barrier-free design -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
People with disabilities -- Transportation -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Demonstrations -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Personnes handicapées -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Entretiens
Personnes handicapées -- Activité politique -- Californie -- San Francisco
Accessibilité aux personnes handicapées -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de
Personnes handicapées -- Transport -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de
Manifestations -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de
People with disabilities -- Transportation
People with disabilities
Demonstrations
Barrier-free design
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
California -- San Francisco
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (United States)
Center for Independent Living.
World Institute on Disability.
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.
United States.
World Institute on Disability.
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.
Center for Independent Living.
Breslin, Mary Lou -- 1944-
Heumann, Judith E -- 1947-
Roberts, Edward V -- 1939-1995
Zukas, Hale
Seligman, Brad -- 1951-
Seligman, Brad -- 1951-
Roberts, Edward V -- 1939-1995
Breslin, Mary Lou -- 1944-
Note:
Kitty Cone ; an interview conducted by David Landes, 1996-1998. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of: Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series.
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3133 C:1-23.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyInterviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (xxi, 335 pages) : portrait ; 29 cm
23 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.