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A CHRONOLOGY OF THE DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENTS
1900 - 1910
1901
The National Fraternal Society of the Deaf
is founded by alumni at the Michigan School for the Deaf in Flint.
It becomes the world's only fraternal life insurance company managed
by deaf people. Through the first half of the
century, it advocates for the rights of deaf people to purchase insurance
and to obtain driver's licenses. 1902
Helen Keller, the first deaf-blind person
to matriculate at college, publishes her autobiography, The Story of My Life,
in a serial 1903 form in Ladies' Home journal in the latter part of 1902,
as a book in 1903. 1907
The first issue of the Matilda Ziegler Magazine
for the Blind is published. 1908
Clifford Beers publishes A Mind That Found
Itself, an expose of conditions inside state and private mental institutions. 1909
The New York Public School System adopts Modified, or American Braille
for use in its classes for blind children, after public hearings in which
blind advocates call for abandoning New York Point. The National Committee for Mental Hygiene is founded by Clifford Beer
in New York City. The first folding wheelchairs are introduced for people with mobility
disabilities.
Disability Rights
Movements in the 1800s
Disability Rights
Movements in the 1900-1910
Disability Rights
Movements in the 1911-30
Disability Rights Movements in the
1930's
Disability Rights Movements in the 1940's
Disability Rights Movements in the
1950's
Disability Rights Movements in the 1960's
Disability Rights Movements in the 1970's
Disability Rights Movements in the
1980's
Disability Rights Movements in the 1990's
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2005 MPLF, Andrew Zito et al contact for author's consent to fair use
(fascists only have rights to drop dead, die,
or be killed!)
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