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Title:

Massachusetts activists and leaders in the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement volume III
Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series

Creator/Contributor:

Magnan, Margaret Kocher, 1945-, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Schein, Andrea, 1946-, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Pelka, Fred, 1954-, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office,, issuing body.

Abstract:

Onset of polio at age three, childhood and adolescence, 1945-64; Indiana University and Harvard University, 1964-70; Women's Community Center, 1972; personal issues around disability; employment at UMass Disabled Student Center; beginning of Boston Self Help, 1976; discussion of Massachusetts leaders; alternate to White House Conference, 1977; Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, participation in trainings, effect on Massachusetts transportation; founding of Massachusetts Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities (MCCD), 1978; cross-disability perspective; founding of Project in Self Advocacy (PISA) and ARC involvement, 1980; Disabled people's Liberation Front and gay, lesbian involvement; PISA cross-disability and minority workshops, 1982; diagnosis of post-polio syndrome, 1981; relationship between MCCD and American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities. SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL (1 portofilio and 1 audiocassette): chiefly clippings, copy of her oath as part of Massachusetts delegation to the White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals, 1977. Audiocassette is a recording of two episodes of "Disability Directions" from 1979, one episode featuring Kocher
Childhood in New York; experiences with disability; Brandeis University, 1964: political activism, attendant for a disabled student; UMass Boston, 1969: getting involved with disabled students services; Lillian Semper Ross; directing the Disabled Student Center at UMass, 1973-90; work-study staff, dealing with conflicts; move to Harbor Campus; student political activity; growing consciousness of a disability culture; cross-disability consciousness; response to Section 504, 1973 Rehabilitation Act; White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals, 1977; President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped; American Coalition for Citizens with Disabilities; non-disabled people and parents in disability organizations; Fred Fay and Judy Heumann; Massachusetts organizations: MCCD, MCOH, Boston Self Help, BCIL, PISA; community organizing, gender, and race in Massachusetts groups; demise of ACCD, lasting impacts: cross-disability idea, disabled as a disenfranchised minority group

Date:

2002 (issued)

Contents:

Cofounder of the Boston Self Help Center and Massachusetts Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities; Director of the Project in Self Advocacy / Margaret Kocher Magnan -- Director of the Disabled Student Center at the University of Massachusetts; witness to early history of the American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities / Andrea Schein.

Subject:

n-us-ma
People with disabilities -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
People with disabilities -- Services for -- Massachusetts
College students with disabilities -- Services for -- Massachusetts
People with disabilities -- Political activity -- Massachusetts
Personnes handicapées -- Massachusetts -- Entretiens
Personnes handicapées -- Services -- Massachusetts
Étudiants handicapés -- Services -- Massachusetts
Personnes handicapées -- Activité politique -- Massachusetts
College students with disabilities -- Services for
People with disabilities
People with disabilities -- Services for
Massachusetts
Boston Self Help Center.
Massachusetts Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities.
American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities.
University of Massachusetts at Boston. -- Disabled Student Center.
American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities.
Magnan, Margaret Kocher -- 1945- -- Interviews
Schein, Andrea -- 1946- -- Interviews

Note:

interviews conducted by Fred Pelka in 2002 and 2003.
Interview transcripts also available online.
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, 192 pages) : portraits ; 29 cm
1 portfolio and 1 audiocassette

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

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.