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No pity : people with disabilities forging a new civil rights movement / Joseph P. Shapiro.
- Title
- No pity : people with disabilities forging a new civil rights movement / Joseph P. Shapiro.
- Author
- Shapiro, Joseph P.
- Publication
- New York : Three Rivers Press, c1994.
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- Description
- xi, 382 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Discusses the background against which the Americans with Disabilities Act was formed.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-368) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Tiny Tims, supercrips, and the end of pity -- From charity to independent living -- The deaf celebration of separate culture -- A hidden army for civil rights -- Integration: out of shadowland -- People first -- The screaming neon wheelchair -- Up from the nursing home -- No less worthy a life -- Crossing the luck line.
- ISBN
- 0812924126 :
- LCCN
- ^^^94238965^
- OCLC
- 31394393
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library