History of Disabilities in the United States

“The public birth of the disability rights movement… For the first time, disability really was looked at as an issue of civil rights rather than an issue of charity and rehabilitation at best, pity at worst” – Kitty Cone (Organizer of the San Francisco Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act sit-in and protest)

http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/sitting-disability-rights-section-504-protests-1970s