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Attorney, national policy advocate, and spokesperson for disability rights organizations, 1976-1990s : oral history transcript
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Attorney, national policy advocate, and spokesperson for disability rights organizations, 1976-1990s : oral history transcript / 2000Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Kaplan, Deborah, 1950 January 17-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Bonney, Sharon, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Youth in Massachusetts, undergraduate study at UC Santa Cruz; disabling accident, 1972; law studies at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley,
1973-1976; work with the Center for Independent Living, Disability Law Resource Center, Disabled Women's Support Group, 1974-1976;
establishing the Disability Rights Center, Washington, D.C., 1976; work at the Public Interest Law Center, Philadelphia, 1978;
marriage to Ralf Hotchkiss, adoption of son Desmond, discussion of parenthood, life with a disability, aging; attorney for
the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, 1980-1985; employment discrimination, developmental disability issues; World
Institute on Disability, 1986-1996, executive director since 1997: work on disability access to emerging technologies, the
Telecommunications Act of 1996; reflections on Ed Roberts and other disability movement leaders.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPeople with disabilities -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc -- United States
People with disabilities -- Political activity -- United States
Parents with disabilities
Personnes handicapées -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Entretiens
Personnes handicapées -- Activité politique -- États-Unis
Parents handicapés
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc
People with disabilities
Parents with disabilities
United States
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Center for Independent Living. -- Disability Law Resource Center.
Disability Rights Center (U.S.)
World Institute on Disability.
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.
World Institute on Disability.
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.
Disability Rights Center (U.S.)
Center for Independent Living. -- Disability Law Resource Center.
Note:
Deborah Kaplan ; an interview conducted by Sharon Bonney in 1998. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the Disability rights and independent living movement oral history series.
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3106 C:1-12.
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, 178 pages) : portrait ; 29 cm
12 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.