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Massachusetts activists and leaders in the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement volume I /
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Massachusetts activists and leaders in the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement volume IDisability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Bartels, Elmer C., 1938-2014, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Corcoran, Paul J., 1934-2017, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Gould, Richard B., 1935-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Pelka, Fred, 1954-, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office,, issuing body.Abstract:
Childhood and family in Newton, Massachusetts; hockey accident and spinal cord injury, 1960; studies at Colby College and
Tufts University; job at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Science; accommodations on the job;
origins of Massachusetts Association of Paraplegics, 1964; organizing the Bay State Wheelchair games,1968; Massachusetts Council
of Organizations of the Handicapped; connections to the Center for Independent Living; Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission
and housing needs study; founding of the Boston Center for Independent Living, 1972, Ed Roberts and Fred Fay; commission of
Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission, 1977.
Childhood and family in Wisconsin; medical residency in rehabilitation and physical medicine, 1963; birth of son and impact
of his disability, 1963; beginnings of involvement in independent living and disability rights, 1968-69; work with the spinal
cord injury center at Boston University Medical Center, 1970s; work with the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Center vocational
rehabilitation services; medical consultation to Massachusetts Medicaid program; 1973; funding and beginning the Boston Center
for Independent Living; 1973-74; demedicalizing disabled living and using personal care assistants; thoughts on least-restrictive
living and life-sharing movements.
Childhood and family in Massachusetts; car accident and spinal cord injury, 1953; time at spinal cord injury center at Boston
City Hospital, 1953-1955; accounting training at Massachusetts Hospital School, 1955-1957/8; isolation at home; experiences
in nursing homes in Massachusetts and California; resident and clinical director at Wellington Hall at Middlesex County Hospital;
deputy director of Boston Center for Independent Living, 1964-; housing accessibility in East Boston; Massachusetts Housing
Finance Agency; 504 Regulations; financial problems and management at BCIL, 1975.
Date:
2001 (issued)Contents:
Cofounder of the Boston Center for Independent Living, Massachusetts Commissioner of Rehabilitation, 1977- / Elmer C. Bartels
-- Physician and cofounder of the Boston Center for Independent Living / Paul J. Corcoran -- Early resident and deputy director
of the Boston Center for Independent Living / Richard B. Gould.
Subject:
n-us-maPeople with disabilities -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
People with disabilities -- Services for -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Personnes handicapées -- Massachusetts -- Entretiens
Personnes handicapées -- Services -- Massachusetts -- Boston
People with disabilities
People with disabilities -- Services for
Massachusetts
Massachusetts -- Boston
Boston Center for Independent Living.
Boston Center for Independent Living.
Bartels, Elmer C -- 1938-2014 -- Interviews
Corcoran, Paul J -- 1934-2017 -- Interviews
Gould, Richard B -- 1935- -- Interviews
Note:
interviews conducted by Fred Pelka in 2001.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Interview transcripts also available online.
Interviews also available on audiocassette (Phonotape 4039 C). Bartels: no. 1-6; Corcoran: no. 6-9; Gould: no. 10-12.
Oral histories are 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 Permissions
Officer, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
Interviews.Oral histories.
Physical Description:
1 volume (vi, 208 pages) : portraits ; 29 cm
12 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Oral histories are 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 Permissions
Officer, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.