From Good Will to Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy (Health, Society, and Policy)

Scotch, Richard K.

ISBN 10: 0877224269 / ISBN 13: 9780877224266

Published by Temple Univ Pr, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Good Will to Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy (Health, Society, and Policy)
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877224269
• ISBN 13: 9780877224266
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Now that curb cuts, braille elevator buttons, and closed caption television are commonplace, many people assume that disabled people are now full participants in American society. This book tells a rather different story. It tells how America's disabled mobilized to effect sweeping changes in public policy, not once but twice, and it suggests that the struggle is not yet over. The first edition of From Good Will to Civil Rights traced the changes in federal disability policy, focusing on the development and implementation of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Richard K. Scotch's extensive interviews with policymakers, leaders of the disability rights movement, and other advocates, supplemented the sketchy official history of the legislation with the detailed, behind-the-scenes story, illuminating the role of the disability rights movement in shaping Section 504. Charting the shifts in policy and activist agendas through the 1990s, this new edition surveys the effects and disappointments associated with the Americans with Disabilities Act, passed in 1990, in the context of the continuing movement to secure full civil rights for disabled people.

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An updated edition of the landmark book on disability policy