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The Computer Training Project in Berkeley, accessible technology and employment for people with disabilitiesDisability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Jacobson, Neil, 1952-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Luebking, Scott, 1951-2009, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Bonney, Sharon, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Breslin, Mary Lou, 1944-, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office,, issuing body.Abstract:
Parents' background and effects of Holocaust; Judy Heumann's organizing in elementary school; summer at Haverstraw Rehab,
1965; summer at Camp Jened; years at Hofstra, 1970-74: PUSH, ABCD, and DIA boycott of President's Committee; riding the New
York subway; move to Berkeley, 1974; comments on Ed Roberts and John Hessler; Computer Training Project, 1974; World Institute
on Disability; Association of Rehabilitation Programs for Disabled Programmers, 1978; 504 sit-in, 1977; appointment by President
Clinton as vice chair of President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, 1993; climbing the Wells Fargo corporate
ladder, 1979.
Childhood in Palos Park; Human Sexuality Program; evolution of Center for Independent Living (CIL); meeting John Velton, birth
of Computer Training Project (CTP), 1974; working with Neil Jacobson; more on CTP: funding, teaching first class, administration;
employment at UC Berkeley, starting CIL's Deaf Services; more on CIL: strike period, resigning from board, achievements, shortcomings;
recollections of Judy Heumann, Ed Roberts; employment at Transtech, 1983-86; emergency attendant care services; funding for
Easy Does It, passing Measure E; shortage of attendants; employment at Sybase, 1988-91; need for technology communication
in disability community; access barriers to technology; teaching at School of Optometry, UC Berkeley, developing chemistry
model for blind students; voting access in Alameda County; health care access; diversity and women's leadership in the disability
movement; reflections on disability movement in Berkeley, 1970-2000.
Date:
1997 (issued)Contents:
Cofounder of the Computer Training Project, co chair of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities
/ Neil Jacobson -- Cofounder of the Computer Training Project, advocate and innovator in disability and computer technology
/ Scott Luebking.
Subject:
n-us-caComputers and people with disabilities
People with disabilities -- Services for -- California -- Berkeley
Ordinateurs et personnes handicapées
Personnes handicapées -- Services -- Californie -- Berkeley
Computers and people with disabilities
People with disabilities -- Services for
California -- Berkeley
United States. -- President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities.
Computer Training Project (Berkeley, Calif.)
Center for Independent Living.
Center for Independent Living.
United States. -- President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities
Jacobson, Neil -- 1952- -- Interviews
Luebking, Scott -- 1951-2009 -- Interviews
Note:
interviews conducted by Sharon Bonney and Mary Lou Breslin in 1997, 199, and 2000.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. Phonotape 4044
C no. 12 sealed until 2030.
Interview transcripts also available online.
Interviews also available on audiocassette (Phonotape 4044 C). Neil Jacobson: audiocassette no. 1-8; Scott Luebking: audiocassette
no. 9-12.
Neil Jacobson interview (December 4, 1998) Also available on videotape (Motion Picture 1440 D).
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, 162 pages) : portraits ; 29 cm
12 audiocassettes
1 videocassette : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. Phonotape 4044
C no. 12 sealed until 2030.
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.