New York Activists and Leaders in the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement: Vol I

Acknowledgements   Series History Larry Allison   Foreword     Tape Guide     Interview History--Larry Allison   I. Personal Background and the Camp Jened Years, 1965-1973   II. Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, Civil Service Employment, and Reflections, 1973-2001 Denise McQuade   Foreword     Tape Guide     Interview History--Denise McQuade   I. Early Years; A Burgeoning Activist Identity; The Creation of Disabled in Action [DIA]     Family background, neighborhood as child, parents' employment     Contracting polio, surgeries and hospitalizations, readjusting to life at home     Experiences with doctors     Parents' attitude toward disability, home instruction     Attending public school and issues of accessibility     Deciding to attend church, constraints on social life, personal expectations for the future, influential teachers     Class president, the prom, class valedictorian     Attending New York City Community College     Confronting prejudice, a high school incident with lack of accessible transportation     On a highly developed sense of fairness, hierarchy of disability, first job hunting experience     Working as a secretary, 1968, story about job search with CIA     Two conferences on disability at Long Island University, meeting with Judy Heumann, the beginning of Disabled in Action [DIA]     Early agenda of DIA, early participants in DIA     Working for accessible housing, the Mayor's Office for the Handicapped, a demonstration to make gasoline available for people with disabilities     Demonstrating for the Rehab Act of 1973, picketing Jerry Lewis' telethon, a "hodgepodge" of activism     Frieda Zames and earlier disability rights activists and the push toward a united movement inclusive of people with all types of disabilities, disability rights as civil rights     DIA's involvement with Willowbrook and deinstitutionalization     Consciousness-raising among parents   II. More on Dia, Promoting Accessible Mass Transit   III. The Development of the First Independent Living Center in New York, Working for New York City Transit Marilyn Saviola   Foreword     Tape Guide     Interview History--Marilyn Saviola   I. Early Years, Goldwater Memorial Hospital, Education, Activism, 1945-1973   II. Independent Living, Disability Politics, CIDNY, and ICS   III. Discussion of ADA, Societal Attitudes, and Disability Culture     Denise Sherer Jacobson