Saturday, July 14, 2007

The Disability and Independent Living Movement

The Disability and Independent Living Movement
Social & Behavioral Sciences:

The Disability and Independent Living Movement
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/
The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Project was launched in 1996 to capture the history of a remarkable movement by people with disabilities to win legally defined civil rights and control over their own lives. Since then, more than 100 oral histories with leaders, participants, and observers of the movement in the 1960s and 1970s have preserved the living memory of the movement. A rich collection of personal papers and the records of key disability organizations join the oral histories in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, comprising an in-depth research resource for the study of a contemporary social movement which has changed the social, cultural, and legal landscape of the nation.
Information about this site was taken directly from the Disability and Independent Living Movement website. More information about this website can be found at http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/

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