04813cam a2200817 4500 567894930 TxAuBib 20220701120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780807071571 0807071579 B00ONTR4EY Amazon 2682ff2e-e349-4fd7-a0aa-1edb1823add5 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2081954 OverDrive (Product ID) 243199 243199 243199 TxAuBib Davis, Lennard J. Enabling Acts [Libby eBook] : The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest U.S. Minority Its Rights. Beacon Press, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 8MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 8MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. gifts for history buffs. history teacher gifts. middle grade mystery. history lovers gifts. gifts for travelers. history buff gifts. Revolutionary War. poetry collection. american studies. historical books. political books. sociology books. addiction books. music history. World History. Romance Novel. history books. history gifts. wine pairing. behaviorism. inheritance. binoculars. afterlife. Sociology. law books. politics. analysis. Socrates. mourning. boudica. dolphin. Artists. History. Reagan. Legal. blood. Law. DNA. HTML:<b>A behind-the-scenes account of the passing of the ADA—the moment when millions of Americans won their civil rights</b><br /> <br /> The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world. Yet the surprising story behind how the bill came to be is little known.<br /> <br /> In this riveting account, acclaimed disability scholar Lennard J. Davis delivers the first on-the-ground narrative of how a band of leftist Berkeley hippies managed to make an alliance with upper-crust, conservative Republicans to bring about a truly bipartisan bill. Based on extensive interviews with all the major players involved including legislators and activists, Davis recreates the dramatic tension of a story that is anything but a dry account of bills and speeches. Rather, it’s filled with one indefatigable character after another, culminating in explosive moments when the hidden army of the disability community stages scenes like the iconic “Capitol Crawl” or an event when students stormed Gallaudet University demanding a “Deaf President Now!”<br /> <br /> From inside the offices of newly formed disability groups to secret breakfast meetings surreptitiously held outside the White House grounds, here we meet countless unsung characters, including political heavyweights and disability advocates on the front lines. “You want to fight?” an angered Ted Kennedy would shout in an upstairs room at the Capitol while negotiating the final details of the ADA. Congressman Tony Coelho, whose parents once thought him to be possessed by the devil because of his epilepsy, later became the bill’s primary sponsor. There’s Justin Dart, adorned in disability power buttons and his signature cowboy hat, who took to the road canvassing 50 states, and people like Patrisha Wright, also known as “The General,” Arlene Myerson or “the brains,” “architect” Bob Funk, and visionary Mary Lou Breslin, who left the hippie highlands of the West to pursue equal rights in the marble halls of DC. Nonfiction. Sociology. Law. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-01 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2682ff2e-e349-4fd7-a0aa-1edb1823add5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2682ff2e-e349-4fd7-a0aa-1edb1823add5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2682ff2e-e349-4fd7-a0aa-1edb1823add5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)