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Cofounder and director of Berkeley Outreach Recreation Program and Mobility International USA, advocate for women's issues : oral history transcript / 2000.
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Title:

Cofounder and director of Berkeley Outreach Recreation Program and Mobility International USA, advocate for women's issues : oral history transcript / 2000

Creator/Contributor:

Sygall, Susan, creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Cowan, Kathryn, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Family and athletic childhood in Queens, New York; spinal cord injury, University of Colorado, 1971; Physically Disabled Students' Program, University of California, Berkeley 1973: accessibility to sports programs for disabled children and adults; Disabled Women's Coalition; Berkeley Outreach Recreation Program; reflections on Center for Independent Living; mobility work at University of Queensland, Australia; Cofounding of Mobility International USA (MIUSA) from base in Oregon, 1981; reflections on women's issues, discrimination against the disabled, independent living movement, influence of athletics on self-image and life quality.
Photocopies of clippings and correspondence on Sygall and the Berkeley Outreach Recreation Program.

Date:

2000 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Sports for people with disabilities
Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- Interviews
Women with disabilities -- Interviews
Discrimination against people with disabilities
Sports pour personnes handicapées
Moelle épinière -- Lésions et blessures -- Patients -- Entretiens
Femmes handicapées -- Entretiens
Discrimination à l'égard des personnes handicapées
Women with disabilities
Sports for people with disabilities
Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients
Discrimination against people with disabilities
Berkeley Outreach Recreation Program.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Physically Disabled Students Program.
Mobility International USA (Organization)
Mobility International USA (Organization)

Note:

Susan Sygall ; an interview conducted by Kathryn Cowan in 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/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3095 C:1-5.
Also available online.
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.
Volume includes index.
Suan Sygall, born in Queens, New York City, 1953.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.

Type:

biography
Interviews.
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 v. (xxii, 118 p.) : port. ; 29 cm.
5 audiocassettes.
1 portfolio.

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright 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.