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Shaping national disability policy: transportation and social security reformsDisability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Cannon, Dennis, 1943-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Martin, Douglas A., 1947-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Pelka, Fred, 1954-, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bonney, Sharon, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office,, issuing body.Abstract:
Childhood and family in Los Angeles, 1943-61; disabled in bicycle accident, 1951; rehabilitation at Children's Hospital and
Casa Colina; disability access at Cal State Northridge, 1962; affiliation with the San Fernando chapter of the California
Association of the Physically Handicapped; consultant for the Southern California Rapid Transit District, 1974; mass transit
accessibility versus special paratransit services; 504 demonstrations, 1977; member of advisory panel to the California Department
of Transportation; Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; ADAPT and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Childhood and family in Nebraska; contracting polio, 1952; organizing the Union of Students with Disabilities at UCLA; accessibility
at UCLA; Ed Roberts and Berkeley Center for Independent Living, 1971; founding Westside Center for Independent Living, 1976;
504 demonstrations; federal building sit-in, 1977; reforming work disincentive regulations and SSI: Section 1619; PASS (Plan
to Achieve Self-Support); working for Medicare reforms, 1980; chair of National Council on Independent Living, 1986-91; fellow
and board member of World Institute on Disability, 1995-2000; 504 coordinator for Culver City; 504 compliance coordinator
at UCLA; Americans with Disabilities Act; the National Academy of Social Insurance, 1990-93; Work Incentives Improvement Act,
1999.
Date:
2001 (issued)Contents:
Advocate for accessible public transportation in California and Washington, D.C. / Dennis Cannon -- National leader in reforming
Social Security and Medicare disability programs; ADA/504 compliance officer at UCLA; first executive director of the Westside
Center for Independent Living / Douglas A. Martin.
Subject:
n-us---Cannon, Dennis -- 1943- -- Interviews
Martin, Douglas A -- 1947- -- Interviews
Westside Center for Independent Living (Los Angeles, Calif.)
National Council on Independent Living (U.S.)
World Institute on Disability.
People with disabilities -- United States -- Interviews
People with disabilities -- Transportation -- California
People with disabilities -- Transportation -- Washington (D.C.)
People with disabilities -- Services for -- United States
College students with disabilities -- Services for -- California -- Los Angeles
People with disabilities -- Medical care -- United States
People with disabilities -- Government policy -- United States
Social security -- United States
Disability insurance -- United States
Medicare
Note:
interviews conducted by Fred Pelka and Sharon Bonney in 2001 and 2002.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Interview transcripts also available online.
Interviews also available on audiocassette (Phonotape 4049 C). Dennis Cannon, no. 1-4; Douglas A. Martin, no. 5-14.
Douglas A. Martin interview also on videotape (Motion Picture 1437 D). Audiocassette of this interview available as Phonotape
4050 C.
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:
Oral histories.Physical Description:
1 volume (vi, 178 pages) : portrait ; 29 cm
15 audiocassettes
1 videocassette (VHS) ; 1/2 in.
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
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.