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Cofounder and director of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, movement strategist : oral history transcriptDisability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Breslin, Mary Lou, 1944-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
O'Hara, Susan, 1938-2018, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Family and childhood in Louisville, KY; contracting polio, 1955, and rehabilitation at Georgia Warm Springs Polio Foundation;
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1962-1966; work for civil rights, anti-Vietnam war 1960s-1970s; job counselor, University
of California, Berkeley Physically Disabled Students' Program; growth of Center for Independent Living: Disability Law Resource
Center; Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504: demonstrations in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., regulations, training,
amendments; Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF): foundation, direction, funding, advocating in Washington
D.C.; Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 1990; reflections on disability rights movement leaders Robert Funk, Patrisha
Wright, Judith Heumann and others; disability access to buildings, transportation, employment.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us-ilPeople with disabilities -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc
Women with disabilities -- Interviews
People with disabilities -- Political activity
Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- Interviews
Discrimination against people with disabilities
People with disabilities -- Education (Higher) -- Illinois -- Urbana Champaign
Personnes handicapées -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Entretiens
Femmes handicapées -- Entretiens
Personnes handicapées -- Activité politique
Poliomyélite -- Patients -- Entretiens
Discrimination à l'égard des personnes handicapées
Women with disabilities
Poliomyelitis -- Patients
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc
People with disabilities -- Education (Higher)
People with disabilities
Discrimination against people with disabilities
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (United States)
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Disabled Students' Program.
Center for Independent Living.
Center for Independent Living. -- Disability Law Resource Center.
United States.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Disabled Students' Program
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
Center for Independent Living. -- Disability Law Resource Center
Center for Independent Living
Breslin, Mary Lou -- 1944- -- Interviews
Breslin, Mary Lou -- 1944-
Note:
Mary Lou Breslin ; an interview conducted by Susan O'Hara, 1996-1998.
Forms part of: Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3094 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:
biographyoral histories (literary works)
interviews.
Oral histories
Interviews
Oral histories.
Interviews.
Histoires orales.
Interviews.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (xxi, 389 pages) : portrait ; 29 cm
23 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
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.